Johan Schot

Johan SchotJohan Schot (1961) is professor in social history of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Twente. He is scientific director of the Foundation for the History of Technology (SHT), and also Co-directing the Foundation for Systems Innovation (KSI). He was program leader of the National Research Program on the History of Technology in the Netherlands in the 20th century.
This program included the publication of a series of seven volumes, Ph.D. theses, monographs, and scientific and popular articles, and contributions to exhibitions, policy workshops and websites for teaching and the publication. He was co-founder (together with Kurt Fischer) of the Greening of Industry Network and projectleader of several EU funded international projects. He is chairing (with Ruth Oldenziel) the pan-European Network Tensions of Europe, Technology in the Making of Twentieth Century Europe.
He is also responsible for developing a larger research program of the KSI Foundation on historical understandings of long-term change. In 2002 he was awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under the Innovational Research Incentives scheme for talented scholars (highest category) a research grant to establish his own research program. This website captures this research program. His research work and publications range from history of technology, science and technology studies, innovation and diffusion theory, constructive technology assessment, environmental management, and policy studies.

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Address information:
Prof. dr. J.W. Schot
Foundation for the History of Technology
c/o Technical University Eindhoven
IPO-building, room 2.31
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)40 247 2708
Fax: +31 (0)40 244 4602
Email: j.w.schot@tm.tue.nl

 

Key Publications:

  • Johan Schot and Vincent Lagendijk, ''Technocratic Internationalism in the Interwar Years: Building Europe on motorways and electricity networks', in: Journal of Modern European History 6:2 (2008), 196-217.
  • Johan Schot, 'Globalisering en infrastructuur', Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2007:3,107-128.
  • Johan Schot, 'Introduction: Building Europe on transnational infrastructures', in: The Journal of Transport History, 28, 2 (2007), pp.1-5.
  • Thomas J. Misa and Johan Schot, ‘Inventing Europe: Technology and the Hidden Integration of Europe’, History and Technology, volume 21, number 1 (2005) pp.1-21.
  • Hugo van Driel and Johan Schot, ‘Regime Transformation in Grain Handling in Rotterdam’,
    Technology & Culture 46 (2005) pp. 51-77.
  • J.W. Schot, H.W. Lintsen, A. Rip, A. Albert de la Bruhèze e.a. (red), Techniek in Nederland in de Twintigste Eeuw. Deel I-VII: Techniek en Modernisering. Balans van de Twintigste Eeuw, Deel I-VII (Zutphen: Walburg Pers 1998-2003).
  • Johan Schot and Adri Albert de la Bruhèze, ‘The Mediated Design of Products, Consumption and Consumers in the Twentieth Century’, in: Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch (eds.), How users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (Cambridge: MIT Press 2003), 229-246.
  • Johan Schot, ‘The Contested Rise of a Modernist Technology Politics’, in: Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey and Arie Rip (eds.), Technology and Modernity (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003) 257-278.
  • R. Hoogma, R. Kemp, J. Schot and B. Truffer, Experimenting for Sustainable Transport. The approach of Strategic Niche Management (London: Spon Press 2002).