New release: ICON Special Issue “Entangling Technological Infrastructures, Material Flows and Enviromental Modernities”

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In this special issue, we explore the sociopolitical entanglements of different technological systems and the way that this affects, in different places, patterns of well-being, of economic and environmental development, and emergent concerns about sustainability.

Stathis Arapostathis and Frank Veraart, Guest Editors

ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 28, no 1 (2023)
CONTENTS
Stathis Arapostathis and Frank Veraart
Introduction: Entangling Technological Infrastructures, Material Flows and Environmental Modernities
John Martin
British Agricultural Revolutions: The Dissemination and Assimilation of More Productive Methods
Sotiris Alexakis and Stathis Arapostathis
From Exploitation to Adaptation: Entanglements, Nature, and Agricultural Practices in Greece, 1920–2000
Klara Strecker and Frank Veraart
From Kenya with Love… Agents Shaping the Backbone of a Telecoupled Rose System, 1920–2020
Claiton Marcio da Silva and Claudio de Majo
The “Fire Day” in Brazil: Soybean Monocultures and Politicisation of Arsons during the Great Acceleration
Robrecht Declercq
Economic Geology and the Global Copper Frontier (1900–1980): Expanding the Futures and Reserves of Mining
Efi Nakopoulou and Stathis Arapostathis
Material Flows and the Geopolitics of PV: Constructing the Geographies of the EU Research Networks for Solar PV Technologies