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Team TU/e History Lab in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e is a Dutch university.
At TU/e, the History Lab studies the risks and rewards of technology in past, present and future, focusing on sustainability history.
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Nathaly Yumi da Silva
Cultural Studies Researcher
​‘SoyStories’ resonates with my cultural background and language proficiency, but especially with my desire to contribute to insightful academic research about my home country, Brazil, intertwined with the country that I chose to live in, The Netherlands.
Holding a Master’s in Cultural Studies, I’m especially interested in portray, by situating and not just translating, Brazilian culture, acknowledging a variety of perspectives, challenges, histories and narratives.
Jonas van der Straeten
Historian specialized in technology and material culture
As an academic, I am interested in the stuff that we make and that makes us and that we like to think of as technology. I am fascinated by the way this stuff travels through time and space, especially in the majority world. I have done research (most of it historical) on electricity in East Africa, on building and housing in Central Asia, and – more recently – on transport in South Asia. ‘SoyStories’ takes me to new grounds; geographically, culturally, and intellectually. Hence, as a much as I will be guiding in the project (specifically Nathaly as her co-supervisor), I will be guided by the others when trying to answers to a set of intriguing questions: How to make sense of globally interconnected sustainability issues and the narratives associated with them? How to make history actionable?
Erik van der Vleuten
Trans-national History of Socio-Ecological Transitions Expert and Project Co-Coordinator
For a long time I have studied histories of technological, social and environmental connections in Europe and beyond, notably in the Tensions of Europe/ Making Europe research network and program. For me, Soy Stories is an effort to rethink and pluralize Eurocentric ways of historical knowledge making on technology, society, and environment and its politics, by (a) studying plural situated-yet-connected socio-material histories and futures of diverse regions across the globe, and (b) exploring how to combine notions of transnational, transformative and transdisciplinary historiography. At Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e, I serve as Professor of History of Technology and as Chair of the TU/e History Lab, the Dutch Foundation for the History of Technology SHT, and the newly founded 4TU interuniversity Centre for the History of Technology.