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Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment

The Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment does integrative research, PhD and undergraduate training and societal collaboration in its core areas of history. We have a diverse collection of expertise in history and the integrative humanities working in areas such as climate, energy, heritage, media, political ecology, urban studies, research policy and innovation, science and technology studies (STS), the environmental humanities, and the posthumanities.

Publications

[1]
F. Bertilsson, "Psykologiseringen av svenska stridspiloter : Idrottspsykologi i svensk försvarsforskning," Idrott, historia & samhälle, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 89-107, 2026.
[2]
J. Behrendtz and L. Rahm, "Policies frozen in silicon : using WPR to expose the politics of problem-solution configurations in technical artifacts," in CHIdeology : Disentangling the fragmented politics, values and imaginaries of Human-Computer Interaction through ideologies, 2026.
[3]
I. Lidström et al., "Framing the idealistic Bohemian and the rational outsider : on Swedish sports media narratives of individualism and defiance," Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 210-227, 2026.
[4]
I. Lidström, "Skiing like no others : idealization and exoticization of boreal athletes from Swedish Lapland in the 1890s," Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 130-148, 2026.
[5]
I. Lidström, B. Carlsson and K. Jonsson, "Outsiders, underdogs and bohemians in sport : an introduction," Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1-7, 2026.
[6]
A. Wickberg and S. Lidström, "Reckoning with the Ocean : The Disconnect Between the  Digital Transition and Marine Sustainability," in Reckoning with Everything : The Becoming-Environmental of Computing, Bernhard Siegert, Benedikt Merkle Ed., : Meson Press, 2026, pp. 111-125.
[7]
O. Hartman Davies, "Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present," Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 91, pp. 240-249, 2026.
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