Martin Emanuel
Researcher at Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; Centrum för teknik- och vetenskapstudier
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I am a historian of technology (PhD 2013, Royal Institute of Technology) doing research also in the transdisciplinary fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and mobility studies.
Biography
Currently I am a Postdoc fellow at STS Uppsala with the project "Cycles of Cycling: Practices and Socio-Technical Transitions in Urban Mobility" funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Since 2016, I am Vice President of T2M (International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility)
Research
Common for much of my research is an interest in power, governance and justice, and the role of technology and in particular infrastructures in this regard—as well as the potential for resistance and rebellion from users towards “the system.” In terms of empirical focus it is clearly on urban, mobility, and environmental history, always with an eye at contemporary pressing issues. Particularly I take an interest in the entanglement of urban mobility, urban environments, and overall urban development, and how their co-production can transition from unsustainable and unfair to just and sustainable.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Cycling Cities: The European Experience (2016)
- Monuments of Unsustainability: Planning, Path Dependence, and Cycling in Stockholm (2015)
- Principer i klinch (2015)
- Technology as knowledge content in Swedish schools 1842-2010 (2015)
- Cykelstad Malmö 1870-2000 (2014)
- På cykel genom tid och rum (2014)
- Cyklandets berg- och dalbana i Stockholm (2013)
Recent publications
- Controlling walking in Stockholm during the inter-war period (2021)
- Introduction (2021)
- Cyclists’ Right to the American road: Lost battles and missed opportunities (2017)
- Designing Signals, Mediating Mobility: Traffic Management and Mobility Practices in Interwar Stockholm (2017)
- Review of: Bike Battles (2017)
All publications
Articles
- Controlling walking in Stockholm during the inter-war period (2021)
- Introduction (2021)
- Cyclists’ Right to the American road: Lost battles and missed opportunities (2017)
- Review of: Bike Battles (2017)
- Seeking adventure and authenticity (2017)
- Technology as knowledge content in Swedish schools 1842-2010 (2015)
- På cykel genom tid och rum (2014)
Books
Chapters
- Designing Signals, Mediating Mobility: Traffic Management and Mobility Practices in Interwar Stockholm (2017)
- Hannover: Sidelining the Bicyclist (2016)
- Stockholm: Where Public Transit Eclipses Cycling (2016)
- Malmö: A Center of Cycling Innovation (2016)
- Copenhagen: Branding the Cycling City (2016)
- Manchester: Cycling at a Standstill (2016)
- Eindhoven: Engineering a Path for Bikes? (2016)
- Monuments of Unsustainability: Planning, Path Dependence, and Cycling in Stockholm (2015)
- Principer i klinch (2015)
- Cyklandets berg- och dalbana i Stockholm (2013)