Jaume Valentines-Álvarez

Collaborating Researcher
Universidade Autònoma de Barcelona

Research interests

  • History of technology and engineering, 20th century
  • Nationalism, technocracy and crisis in Southern Europe
  • State and popular technologies of surviving war
  • Resistances to nuclear technology, from fun to violence
  • Industrial heritage, cultural identities and hegemony

Projects

Publications (selection)

  1. (special issue) Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume; Sastre-Juan, Jaume, “Fun and Fear: The Banalization of Nuclear Technologies through Display”, Centaurus. Journal of the European Society For The History of Science, 61:1 (2019) [accepted on 21 March 2019]

  2. “Seeing like a Factory: Technocratic Nationalism in Catalonia, 1929–1939”, History and Technology, 34:3-4 (2018; published on Mar 17 2019): 235-258.

  3. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume (in collaboration with NY artist Eric LoPresti), “The Atom in the Garden and the Apocalyptic Fungi: A Tale on a Global Nuclearscape (with Artworks and Bird-songs)”, in Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Rodrigues and Davide Scarso (eds.), Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene, pp. 180-200 (New York: Routledge,, 2019).

  4. “The Quest for the Technological Soul of a Nation: The Catalan Forge and the Display of Politics (1914-1939)”, in Elena Canadelli, Marco Beretta and Laura Ronzon (eds.), Behind the Exhibit. Displaying Science and Technology at World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century, pp. 32-50 (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019). [free download here]

  5. “La ingeniería de la autonomía: Catalanismo y tecnocracia en la Segunda República Española”, Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 114:2 (2019; accepted in 5 May 2017): 245-277.

  6. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume; Sastre-Juan, Jaume, “The Failed Technology Museum of Catalonia: Engineers and the Politics of the Musealization of Technology in Barcelona, 1929-1939”, Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, 34:1 (2019): 128-154.

  7. Macedo, Marta; Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume (2016), “Technology and Nation: Learning from the Periphery”, Technology and Culture, 57 (4), 989-997.
  8. Sastre-Juan, Jaume; Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume, “Technological Fun: The Politics and Geographies of Amusement Parks”, in Hochadel, Oliver; Nieto-Galan, Agustí (eds.), Barcelona (1888-1929): An Urban History of Science and Modernity (London/New York: Routledge, 2016), 92-112.
  9. Jaume Valentines-Álvarez, "Crossroads of heritage: The material culture of science and technology in universities", Opuscula Musealia XVIII (2010), 61-71.
  10. Guillermo Lusa Monforte, Antoni Roca Rosell, Jaume Valentines-Álvarez (eds.), El Fons “Ramon Perera”. Imatges de la defensa passiva a Catalunya (1938-1939), (Barcelona, Memorial Democràtic, Càtedra UNESCO de Tècnica i Cultura, 2008).
  11. Jaume Valentines-Álvarez, "La Collecció: observar i investigar. Descripció dels aparells". In: El Laboratori de Física Experimental Mentora Alsina [Exhibition Catalogue] (Terrassa, Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya, 2006), pp. 14-79. [virtual exhibition here]

Scientific Societies and other institutions

  • Environmental Social Conflict Study Group
  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP)
  • Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology (SCHCT)
  • Allaqqat Co-operative Research Group
Fotografia de Jaume Valentines-Álvarez
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