EUROCRIT is a research project in Inventing Europe , a EUROCORES programme coordinated by the European Science Foundation. It
seeks to gain a better understanding of risks in the construction and
governance of European infrastructures.
Erik’s (1968) main research interest is the co-evolution of
(infrastructure) technologies and societal change in the 19th and 20th
centuries. He published on specific infrastructure, such as the electrification
of Denmark (Ph.D. thesis, 1998); wet infrastructure in the Netherlands; and European electric power networks and refrigerated food transport. He
also worked on broader syntheses, such as the intertwinement of infrastructure-
and nation building (the 'Networked Nation’) and the
role of transnational infrastructure in the shaping of contemporary Europe
(‘Networking Europe’). Finally he is interested in historiographical and
theoretical issues, including the possibility of a transnational history of
technology, and of critical transactionalism as a perspective on
infrastructure & regional integration/fragmentation.
Erik teaches at the School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, and is a program director at the Netherlands research school for economic and social history, the N.W. Posthumus Institute. He participated in the pan-European research programs Tensions of Europe/Inventing Europe
as co-director of the research network on transnational infrastructure (1999-2006), principal investigator in the EUROCRIT program (2007-), and
member of the Tensions of
Europe transition and advisory committees.
In EUROCRIT Erik is an overall program co-organizer, member of the book editor team, and principal investigator responsible for subproject 2 on transnational electricity
infrastructure.
Work address:
IPO 2.28 School of Innovation Sciences
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB EINDHOVEN
The
Netherlands
Email:
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Books/ edited volumes:
Erik van der Vleuten &Arne Kaijser, eds., Networking Europe. Transnational
infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (Sagamore
Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006). Table of contents (132.88 kB).
Erik van der Vleuten & Geert Verbong, eds., Networked
Nation. Technology, society and nature in the Netherlands in the 20th
century. Special issue of History and Technology 20 (3) (2004).
Wim Ravenstein, Leon
Hermans, & Erik van der Vleuten (eds), Participation and
globalization in water system building. Special issue of Knowledge,
Technology & Policy 14 (4) (2002).
Relevant scientific articles/book chapters in English
Erik van der Vleuten, "Feeding the Peoples of
Europe. Transnational Food Transport Infrastructures in the Early Cold
War, 1947-1960", in: Badenoch & Fickers (ed), Untangling Infrastructures and Europe: mediations, events, scales (London: Palgrave Macmillan, expected 2010)
Erik van der Vleuten & Vincent Lagendijk, Interpreting transnational infrastructure vulnerability: European blackout and the historic dynamics of transnational infrastructure governance. Energy Policy 38 (2010): 2053–2062.
Erik van der Vleuten & Vincent Lagendijk, Transnational
infrastructure vulnerability: The historical shaping of the 2006
European blackout. Energy Policy 38 (2010): 2042–2052.
Erik van der Vleuten. ‘Networked Nation. Infrastructure
integration of the Netherlands,’ in: Johan Schot, Arie Rip, and Harry Lintsen
(eds), Technology and the making of the Netherlands. The age of contested
modernization 1890-1970 (Zutphen: MIT Press/ Walburg Pers, 2010), 47-123.
Wim Ravenstein, Leon Hermans and Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Participation and globalization in Water system building.
Guest editors' introduction.' Knowledge, Technology & Policy 14
(4) (2002), 4-12.
Projects 
EUROCRIT is a research project in Inventing Europe , a EUROCORES programme coordinated by the European Science Foundation. It
seeks to gain a better understanding of risks in the construction and
governance of European infrastructures.
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