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Researcher at the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Member of the Arctic Norden project.

Anders Houltz

PH D, is a researcher at the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. His research interests relate to the cultural history of industry and technology, focusing museums, exhibitions and material and visual culture. His current research projects deal with car industry as a cultural phenomenon in modern Sweden, and with the representations of polar research and exploration in the Nordic countries.

Main publications

Baraldi, E., H. Fors, & A. Houltz, Eds. (2006). Taking Place: The Spatial Contexts of Science, Technology, and Business. Sagamore Beach, Mass., Science History Publications.

Houltz, A. (2003). Teknikens tempel: Modernitet och industriarv på Göteborgsutställningen 1923. Diss. Hedemora, Göteborg, Gidlund; Göteborgs stadsmuseum.

Houltz, A. (2007). “Industrial Flow and National Pride: SKF and Volvo, Icons of the High Industrial Period”,  Industry and modernism: Companies, Architecture, and Identity in the Nordic and Baltic Countries during the High-Industrial Period. A. Kervanto Nevanlinna. Helsinki, The Finnish Literature Society: 294-310.

Houltz, A. (2009). ”Volvos värde varar: Svensk bilindustri som moderniseringsmotor och folkhemsikon.” Polhem: Tidskrift för teknikhistoria 2006-2007(3): 24-39.

Houltz, A., B. Lundström, et al., Eds. (2008). Arbete pågår – i tankens mönster och kroppens miljöer. Uppsala studies in economic history, 86. Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.

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