Cycling and Recycling

Histories of Sustainable Practices
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-970-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Environment in History: International Perspectives

Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies—bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oldenziel, Ruth

Trischler, Helmuth

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nachhaltigkeit, Grüne Technologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Introduction: How Old Technologies Became Sustainable: An Introduction

Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler



PART II: CYCLING HISTORIES

Chapter 1. Use and Cycling in West Africa

Hans Peter Hahn

Chapter 2. The Politics of Bicycle Innovation: Comparing the American and Dutch Human-Powered Vehicle Movements, 1970s—present

Manuel Stoffers

Chapter 3. Scarcity, Poverty, Exclusion: Negative Associations of Bicycle’s Uses and Cultural History in France

Cathérine Bertho Lavenir

Chapter 4. Who Pays, Who Benefits? Bicycle Taxes as Policy Tool of the Public Good, 1890–2012

Adri de la Bruhèze and Ruth Oldenziel

Chapter 5. Monuments of Unsustainability: Planning, Path Dependence, and Cycling in Stockholm

Martin Emanuel

PART III: INTERSECTIONS

Chapter 6. Bicycling and Recycling in Japan: Divergent Trajectories

William Steele

 

PART IV: RECYCLING HISTORIES

Chapter 7. Premodern Sustainability? The Secondhand and Repair Trade in Urban Europe

Georg Stöger

Chapter 8. Waste to Assets: How Household Waste Recycling Evolved in West Germany

Roman Köster

Chapter 9. Ecological Modernization of Waste-Dependent Development? Hungary’s 2010 Red Mud Disaster

Zsuzsa Gille

Chapter 10. “Der Kampf um den Abfallstrom.” Conflict and Contestation in Re-Valuing E-Waste in Germany

Djahane Salehabidi

PART IV: REFLECTIONS

Chapter 11. Can History Offer Pathways to Sustainability?

Donald Worster

Chapter 12. History, Sustainability, Choice

Robert Friedel

Contributors

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Trischler, Helmuth
Helmuth Trischler is Head of Research of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Professor of Modern History and the History of Technology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Co-Director (with Christof Mauch) of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. His most recent book is Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers with Martin Kohlrausch.

Oldenziel, Ruth
Ruth Oldenziel is Professor of American and European History at the Eindhoven University of Technology and visiting scholar at the LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Her books include Consumers, Users, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe with Mikael Hård; Cold War Kitchen with Karin Zachmann; Gender and Technology with Nina Lerman and Arwen Mohun; and Making Technology Masculine.

Ruth Oldenziel is Professor of American and European History at the Eindhoven University of Technology and visiting scholar at the LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Her books include Consumers, Users, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe with Mikael Hård; Cold War Kitchen with Karin Zachmann; Gender and Technology with Nina Lerman and Arwen Mohun; and Making Technology Masculine.