Vincent Lagendijk (V.C.)

Key publications
Lagendijk, V. (2018). Ideas, Individuals, and Institutions: Notion and Practices of a European Electricity System. Contemporary European History, 27(2), 202-220. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777318000115
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Lagendijk, V. C., Couperus, S., & Van de Grift, L. (2015). Experimental Spaces: A Decentred Approach to Planning in High Modernity. Introduction. Journal of Modern European History, 13(4), 475-479. https://doi.org/10.17104/1611-8944-2015-4-475
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Lagendijk, V. C. (2015). Divided Development: Post-War Ideas on River Utilization and their Influence on the Development of the Danube. The International History Review, 37(1), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2013.859165
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Lagendijk, V. C. (2014). The Structure of Power: The UNECE and East-West Electricity Connections, 1947-1975. Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 24(1), 50-65. http://www.hsozkult.de/hfn/journal/id/zeitschriftenausgaben-8316
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Lagendijk, V. (2008). Electrifying Europe: The Power of Europe in the Construction of Electricity Networks. Aksant.
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Lagendijk, V. (2018). From American South to Global South: The TVA’s Experts and Expertise, 1933-1998. In F. Trentmann, A. B. Summ, & M. Rivera (Eds.), Work in Progress: Economy and Environment in the Hands of Experts (pp. 79-101). Oekom Verlag.
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Books

  • Electrifying Europe: The Power of Europe in the Construction of Electricity Networks, PhD diss. Eindhoven Universty of Technology (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2008).

 

Articles

  • Lagendijk, Vincent. “The Structure of Power: The UNECE and East-West Electricity Connections, 1947–1975.” Comparativ: Zeitschrift Für Globalgeschichte Und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 24, no. 1 (2014): 50–65.

  • “Divided Development: Post-War Ideas on River Utilization and Their Influence on the Development of the Danube.” The International History Review (2014).

  • “'To Consolidate Peace'? The International Electro-Technical Community and the Grid for the United States of Europe.” Journal of Contemporary History, 47:2 (2012), 402-426.

  • “'An Experience Forgotten Today': Examining Two Rounds of European Electricity Liberalization,” History and Technology 27, no. 3 (September 2011): 291-310.

  • (with Erik van der Vleuten), “Transnational Infrastructure Vulnerability: The Historical Shaping of the 2006 European Blackout.” Energy Policy, 38:4 (2010), 2042-2052.

  • (with Erik van der Vleuten), “Interpreting Transnational Infrastructure Vulnerability: 4/11 and the Historical Dynamics of Transnational Electricity Governance.” Energy Policy, 38:4 (2010), 2053-2062.

  • “L'histoire de l'idée d'un système européen de l'électricité: projet, progrès, persistance”, in: Annales historiques de l'électricité, 6 (2008), 57-79.

  • (with Johan Schot), “Technocratic Internationalism in the Interwar Years: Building Europe on Motorways and Electricity Networks”, in: Journal of Modern European History, 6:2 (2008) 196-217.

  • (with Erik van Vleuten, Irene Anastasiadou and Frank Schipper), “Europe's System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks”, in: Contemporary European History, 16, 3 (2007), 321-347.

 

Chapters

  • “From Liberalism to Liberalisation: International Electricity Governance in the 20th Century.” In Linking Networks: The Formation of Common Standards and Visions for Infrastructure Development, edited by Martin Schiefelbusch and Hans-Liudger Dienel. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, 137-150.

  • (with Erik Van der Vleuten”, “Inventing Electrical Europe: Interdependencies, Borders, Vulnerabilities.” In Europe Goes Critical: The Emergence and Governance of European Critical Infrastructures, edited by Anique Hommels, Per Högselius, Erik Van der Vleuten, and Arne Kaijser. Palgrave MacMillan: Houndsmill, 2013, 57-96.

  • (with Geert Verbong), “Setting the Stage for the Energy Transition,” in Governing the Energy Transition, ed. Geert Verbong and Derk Loorbach, Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions (London: Routledge, 2012), 24-50.

  • (with Frank Schipper & Irene Anastasiadou), “New connections for an Old Continent: Rail, road and electricity in the League of Nations' Organisation for Communications and Transit”, in: Alexander Badenoch & Andreas Fickers (eds.), Europe Materializing? Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Houndsmill: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), 113-143.

  • “Biography 1: An Electrifying Legacy: The Long Life of the Oliven Plan,” in: Alexander Badenoch & Andreas Fickers (eds.), Europe Materializing? Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Houndsmill: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), 44–46.

  • (with Erik van der Vleuten), “Electricity infrastructures”, entry in Akira Iriye & Pierre-Yves Saunier (eds.) Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (Houndsmill: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009), 315-318.

  • “High voltages, Lower Tensions: The Interconnections of Eastern and Western European Electricity Networks in the 1970s and 1980s”, in: Éric Bussière, Michel Dumoulin & Sylvian Schirmann (eds.) Milieux économiques et intégration européenne au XXe siècle. La crise des années 1970 de la conférence de La Haye à la veille de la relance des années 1980, Euroclio: Etudes et Documents series, vol. 35, (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2006), 137-165.