Vincent Lagendijk (1980) studied Economic
History at Leiden University. He wrote a PhD thesis at Eindhoven University of
Technology. The thesis, Electrifying Europe. The power of Europe in the construction of electricity networks, deals with the historical development of ideas on European unification in correlation to electricity network-building in the period 1918-2005. It can be ordered here.
In EUROCRIT he will work in IP2, further exploring Europe's electricity supply system and its historical configuration, and how the issue of risk was handled in the system-building process, and how recent liberalisation changes have affected the existing safety structures. Amongst other cases, he will study several blackouts. He is the webmaster of this site.
In October 200 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded Vincent with a so-called VENI grant. These grants are supplied to researchers that recently completed their doctorates. It enables them to conduct new and innovative research over a period of three years.Vincent will use the grant for his proposal Transnationalising the TVA. He will look at the transnational dimensions of the exploitation of international rivers, as inspired by the American Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA, 1933). His research proposal encompasses three cases; the river Mekong, Jordan, and the Danube.
Vincent is a member of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the Dutch N.W. Posthumus Institute, and the Oslo Contemporary International History Network.
Vincent Lagendijk
IPO-building room 2.02
PO Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
+31(0)412-636245
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Skype: vincentlag
Books:
Electrifying Europe: The Power of Europe in the Construction of Electricity Networks (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2008). Order here.
Articles
- (with Erik van der Vleuten), ‘Transnational Infrastructure Vulnerability: The Historical Shaping of the 2006 European Blackout’, Energy Policy, forthcoming.
- (with Erik van der Vleuten), ‘Interpreting Transnational Infrastructure Vulnerability: 4/11 and the Historical Dynamics of Transnational Electricity Governance’, Energy Policy, forthcoming.
- 'Histoire de l'idée d'un système européen de l'électricité: Projets, progrès et persistances', in: Annales historiques de l'électricité 6 (2008), 57-79. (3.07 MB)
- (with Johan Schot), 'Technocratic Internationalism in the Interwar Years. Building Europe on motorways and electricity networks', in: Journal of Modern European History 6:2 (2008), 196-217.
- (with Erik van Vleuten, Irene Anastasiadou and Frank Schipper), 'Europe's System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks', in: Contemporary European History, 16, 3 (2007), pp.321-347.
Book chapters:
- (with Frank Schipper & Irene Anastasiadou), 'New connections for an Old Continent: Rail, road and electricity in the League of Nations' Organisation for Communications and Transit', to appear in: Alexander Badenoch & Andreas Fickers (eds.), Europe materializing? (submitted to Palgrave MacMillan).
- "High
voltages, lower tensions. The interconnections of Eastern and Western
European electricity networks in the 1970s and 1980s", in: Éric Bussière, Michel Dumoulin & Sylvian Schirmann (eds.)
Milieux
économiques et intégration européenne au XXe siècle. La crise des
années 1970 de la conférence de La Haye à la veille de la relance des
années 1980, Euroclio: Etudes et Documents
series, vol. 35, (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 137-165. (225.64 kB)
Conference papers:
- (with Hans Buiter), 'Investigating infrastructural interdependencies: The construction of a database on European infrastructure in the 19th and 20th century', paper presented at the SHOT Annual Conference 2007, Lisbon (Portugal), October 2008.
- (with Alexander Badenoch), "Myths of Kaprun: Material vision of Europe", Paper presented at Academic conference on European Identity 1939-c.1970: the Impact of the Second World War, Amsterdam, December 2007, and the SHOT Annual Conference 2007, Washington D.C. (USA), October 2007.
- "A network of power? The European electrical industry and the grid for the United States of Europe, 1929-1937", Paper presented at the European
Business History Association, September 2007, Geneva, Switzerland. (161.47 kB)
- (with Frank Schipper) “European road and electricity networks in the 20th century: Imagination, contestation, realization” , Paper presented at the NW Posthumus Ph.D.
candidate conference, Amsterdam, 12 May 2006. (447.69 kB)
- (with Frank Schipper) “Seducing the apostate state: Road and electricity networks in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980”, Paper presented at the TIE-Workshop, Eindhoven/Rolduc, April 2006, and at a masterclass with John Krige, Eindhoven, 19 June 2006.
- 'High voltages, low tensions. The interconnections of Eastern and Western European electricity grids during the Cold War'. SHOT Annual
Conference 2005, Minneapolis (USA), 3-6 November 2005. (350.61 kB)
Reports, Magazine article, Encyclopedia entries:
- (with Erik van der Vleuten), 'Electricity infrastructures', entry for the Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (edited by Akira Iriye & Pierre-Yves Saunier), 2009.
- Archives Made Easy report: League of Nations Archive, Geneva, February 2006.