Stathis Arapostathis
Stathis Arapostathis
Books
Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday, Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain (MIT Press, 2013).
Edited Volumes/Collections
Stathis Arapostathis and Frank Veraart (eds), Special Issue "Entangling Technological Infrastructures, Material Flows and Environmental Modernities", ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 28, no 1 (2023)
Markku Lehtonen, Ana Prades, Josep Espluga & Stathis Arapostathis (2022) (guest editors), Special issue “Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: Historical and Comparative Experience from Europe”, Journal of Risk Research, 25:5
Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday (guest editors) Special Issue (Spotlight Section)
"SILVANUS P. THOMPSON: QUAKER POLYMATH AND PUBLIC SCIENTIST-ENGINEER", Centaurus, 63:3 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000498/2021/63/3
Stathis Arapostathis and Peter J.G. Pearson (Eds.), Special issue: How History Matters for the Governance of Sociotechnical Transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, v.32 (2019)
Stathis Arapostathis and Aristotelis Tympas (guest editors), Special Issue: History and Historiography of Technology in Greece from 19th to 21st century, History of Technology, v.33, 2017 http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/history-of-technology-volume-33-9781474237147/
Stathis Arapostathis (guest editor), Special Issue- ‘Experts and Expertise in Techno-sciences: Historical and Sociological Approaches’, Neusis: Greek Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (in Greek), v.23, 2016.
Stathis Arapostathis, Faidra Papanelopoulou and Aristotle Tympas (eds), Technology and Society in Greece: Historical and STS studies (Athens: Ekdotiki Athinon, 2015) (in Greek)
Stathis Arapostathis and Graham Dutfield (eds.), Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property: Concepts, Actors and Practices from the Past to the Present (Edward Elgar, 2013)
Peer Reviewed Articles
Stathis Arapostathis and Frank Veraart, "Introduction: Entangling Technological Infrastructures,
Material Flows and Environmental Modernities", ICON 28 (2023), 9-23.
Sotiris Alexakis and Stathis Arapostathis "From Exploitation to Adaptation: Entanglements, Nature, and Agricultural Practices in Greece, 1920–2000", ICON 28 (2023), 48-76
Efi Nakopoulou and Stathis Arapostathis, "Material Flows and the Geopolitics of PV: Constructing the Geographies of the EU Research Networks for Solar PV Technologies", ICON 28 (2023), 148-179
Chris Foulds, Sarah Royston, Thomas Berker, Efi Nakopoulou, Zareen Pervez Bharucha, Rosie Robison, Simone Abram, Branko Ančić, Stathis Arapostathis, Gabriel Badescu, Richard Bull, Jed Cohen, Tessa Dunlop, Niall Dunphy, Claire Dupont, Corinna Fischer, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Catherine Grandclément, Eva Heiskanen, Nicola Labanca, Maria Jeliazkova, Helge Jörgens, Margit Keller, Florian Kern, Patrizia Lombardi, Ruth Mourik, Michael Ornetzeder, Peter J. G. Pearson, Harald Rohracher, Marlyne Sahakian, Ramazan Sari, Karina Standal, Lidija Živčič, "An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions",
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, 223 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01243-z
Markku Lehtonen, Ana Prades, Josep Espluga & Stathis Arapostathis (2022), Introduction to the Special Issue “Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: Historical and Comparative Experience from Europe”, Journal of Risk Research, 25:5, 547-561.
Yannis Fotopoulos and Stathis Arapostathis, "From National to Cosmopolitan Hydrocarbons Resource Space: Hydrocarbons, Transnational Politics and the State in Greece", Global Environment 15 (2022), 322-369. doi: 10.3197/ge.2022.150206
Stathis Arapostathis and Anna Guagnini, "Living in Between: The commercial side of Silvanus P. Thompson's engineering," Centaurus, 63:3 (2021), 499-512 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1600-0498.12407
Josie Coburn, Frederique Bone, Michael M. Hopkins, Andy C. Stirling, Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz, Stathis Arapostathis, Martin J. Llewelyn, "Appraising research policy instrument mixes: a multicriteria mapping study in six European countries of diagnostic innovation to manage antimicrobial resistance", Research Policy, (accepted October 2020)
Stathis Arapostathis, Kyriaki Klokiti, Graham Dutfield, "Plants, Catalogues and Credit: Agriculture Transitions in Proprietary Regimes in Greece 1920-2020", Intellectual Property Quarterly, 4 (2020), 299-314.
Efi Nakopoulou and Stathis Arapostathis, "Reconfiguring technologies by funding transitions: priorities, policies, and the renewable energy sources in the European Community funding schemes", Journal of Energy History/Revue d'Histoire de l'Énergie [Online], n°4, published 27 July 2020
Stathis Arapostathis and Leonard Laborie, "Governing Technosciences in the Age of Grand Challenges: A European Historical Perspective on the Entanglement of Science, Technology, Diplomacy, and Democracy", Technology and Culture, 61 (2020), 318-332.
Stathis Arapostathis and Peter J.G. Pearson, "How History Matters for the Governance of Sociotechnical Transitions: An introduction to the special issue", Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (available online 20 May 2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.05.001
Stathis Arapostathis, Scott Laczay, Peter Pearson, "Steering the 'C-Day': Insights from the rapid, planned transition of the UK's natural gas conversion programme", Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (available online 31 May 2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.03.004
Yannis Fotopoulos, Stathis Arapostathis, Peter J.G. Pearson, "Branching points and transition pathways in the Greek Natural Gas Regime, 1966-2016", Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 32 (2019), 69-89.
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2019.05.002
Stathis Arapostathis and Yannis Fotopoulos, “Transnational energy flows, capacity building and Greece's quest for energy autarky, 1914–2010”, Energy Policy, 127 (2019), 39-50.
Stathis Arapostathis, “Marconi’s legal battles: Discursive, textual, and material entanglements”, History of Science, 57:1 (2019), 97-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275318801394
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Fertilising Farms and Institutional Authorities: Experts, Regime-Making and Agricultural Politics in Greece, 1945-2000’, HOST: Journal of the History of Science and Technology, 11 (2017), 10-33. https://doi.org/10.1515/host-2017-0002
Stathis Arapostathis, Aspasia Kandaraki, Yannis Garyfallos, Aristotle Tympas, ‘Tobacco for Atoms’: Nuclear Politics, Ambivalences and Resistances around a reactor that was never built’, History of Technology , v.33 (2017)
Stathis Arapostathis and Serkan Karas, ‘Water Management, Expertise and Techno-politics in Energy and Agriculture in Greece, 1940-2014: The Case of Acheloos River’, History of Technology , v.33 (2017)
Stathis Arapostathis and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Introduction: History of Technology in Modern Greece from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day’, History of Technology , v.33 (2017)
Peter J.G. Pearson and Stathis Arapostathis, 'Two centuries of innovation, transformation and transition in the UK gas industry: Where next?', Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy (special issue on Energy Transition Pathways), January 2017 DOI: 10.1177/0957650917693482 | First Published January 1, 2017 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0957650917693482
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Stathis Arapostathis, 'Experts and Peripheries: Ongoing Research and Future Challenges', Technology and Culture -- Volume 57, Number 4, October 2016, 951-965
Serkan Karas and Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Harbours of crisis and consent: The technopolitics of coastal infrastructure in colonial Cyprus, 1895-1908’, History of Transport, 2016, 1-22, DOI: 10.1177/0022526616667365
http://jth.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/0022526616667365v1.pdf?ijkey=KXMzb76Moq7JiW1&keytype=finite
Stathis Arapostathis, 'Experts and Expertise: Studies, Themes and Problems from the History and Sociology of Science and Technology', Neusis: Greek Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (in Greek), 23 (2016), 5-22
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘‘Trading Zones’, Expertise and the Making of Intellectual Property in the British Wireless Industry: The case of Marconi Company, 1897-1930’, Neusis: Greek Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (in Greek), 23 (2016), 43-60.
Stathis Arapostathis, Peter J.G. Pearson, Timothy J. Foxon, 'UK natural gas system integration in the making, 1960–2010: Complexity, transitional uncertainties and uncertain transitions', Environmental Innovations and Societal Transitions, (2014) . http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2014.01.004
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Meters, patents and expertise(s): Knowledge networks in the electricity meters industry, 1880–1914', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 44, Issue 2, June 2013, 234–246.
Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday, ‘Electrical technoscience and physics in transition, 1880-1920’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 44, Issue 2, June 2013, 202–211.
Stathis Arapostathis, Anna Carlsson-Hyslop, Peter Pearson, Maria Gradillas, Scott Laczay, Judith Thornton, Suzanne Wallis, ‘Governing Transitions: Cases and insights from the history of the UK gas industry, 1880-1980’, Energy Policy 52 (2013), 25-44.
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Electrical Innovations, Authority and Consulting Expertise in late Victorian Britain’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 67:1 (March 2013), 59-76.
Timothy Foxon, Peter Pearson, Stathis Arapostathis, Anna Carlsson-Hyslop, Judith Thornton, ‘Branching points for transition pathways: assessing responses of actors to challenges on pathways to a low carbon future’, Energy Policy 52 (2013), 146-158.
Nils Markusson, Florian Kern, Stathis Arapostathis, Hannah Chalmers, Navraj Ghaleigh, Philip Heptonstall, Peter Pearson, David Rossati, Stewart Russell and Jim Watson, ‘A socio-technical framework for assessing the viability of carbon capture and storage technology’, Technology Forecasting and Social Change , 79 (2012), 903-918.
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Academic Entrepreneurship, Innovation Policies and Politics in Greece’, Industry and Higher Education, Vol 24, No 3, June 2010, pp. 165–176.
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Innovation without Invention: The Technological Style of A.B.W Kennedy and the British Electrical Industry’, Neusis 18 (2009), 33-47 (in Greek) [Στάθης Αραποστάθης, ‘Α.Β.W. Kennedy και η Βρετανική Ηλεκτρική Βιομηχανία, 1889-1914’, Νεύσις, 18 (2009), 33-47].
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘A Discussion with Robert Fox: History, Technology and the Industrial Sciences’ interview with Robert Fox, Neusis 18 (2009), 6-17 (in Greek) [‘Συζητώντας για την Ιστορία της Τεχνολογίας και της Βιομηχανικής Επιστήμης με τον Robert Fox’, συνέντευξη στο Δρ. Στάθη Αραποστάθη, Νεύσις, 18 (2009), 6-17].
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Morality, Locality and ‘Standardization’ in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914’, History of Technology, 28(2008), 53-74.
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Dynamos, Tests and Consulting in the Career of John Hopkinson in the 1880s’, Annales historiques de l' électricité, No 5 (November 2007), 9-32.
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Verner Suomi’, New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Noretta Koertge (ed.) (Gale Cengage: London, 2007), v.6, pp. 553-558 (ISBN 9780684313207).
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
Stathis Arapostathis and Yannis Fotopoulos, "Between Material Dependencies, Natural Commons and Politics of Electrical Transitions: State as Networks of Power in Greece, 1940–2010", in Electrical Conquest, Bernard Carlson and Erik Conway (Eds), January 2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44591-0_6
Stathis Arapostathis, Robert Bud and Helmuth Trischler, "Nuclear Energy in Europe: A Public Technology", Engaging the Atom: The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present, Arne Kaijser, Markku Lehtonen, Jan-Henrik Meyer, and Mar Rubio-Varas (Eds), West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Stathis Arapostathis, "Industrial "Property", Law and the Politics of Invention in Greece, 1900-1940", Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective, Graeme Gooday and Steven Wilf (Eds) (Cambridge: CUP, 2020), 166-183.
Serkan Karas and Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Electrical Colonialism: Techno-politics and British Engineering Expertise in the making of the Electricity Supply Industry in Cyprus’, in Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier, Stéphanie Le Gallic (eds.), Mondes électriques / Electric Worlds. Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions (19th-21st century), Brussels, Peter Lang, 2016
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/62126#.V_Yi59FQNoc.facebook
Stathis Arapostathis, Faidra Papanelopoulou, Telis Tympas, 'Introduction: Technology and Society in Greece', in Technology and Society in Greece: Historical and STS studies in Arapostathis, Papanelopoulou and Tympas (eds), (Athens: Ekdotiki Athinon, 2015), 11-24.
Stathis Arapostathis, 'Intellectual Property Law and Politics in 20th century Greece' in Bottis,M., Alexandropoulou,E., Iglezakis,I.( eds), Lifting barriers to empower the future of Information Law and Ethics, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Information Law and Ethics (University of Macedonia Press (UOMPress), Thessaloniki 2015), 422-430.
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Wireless at the Bar: Experts, Circuits and Marconi’s Inventions in Patent Disputes in Early Twentieth Century Britain’, in Relocating the History of Science, Arabatzis et al. (eds), Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v.312, chapt. 22 (Springer, 2015)
Aristotelis Tympas, Stathis Arapostathis, Katerina Vlantoni and Yannis Garyfallos, 'Border-Crossing Electrons: Critical Energy Flows to and from Greece', in The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructures, Per Hogselius, Anique Hommels, Arne Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten (eds), (Palgrave Macmillan: Hamshire, 2013), 157-183..
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘The Contested Inventors: Technological Change, Culture and Morals in British Patent Disputes, 1880-1920’, in Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property: Concepts, Actors and Practices from the Past to the Present, Arapostathis and Dutfield (eds.), 145-161.
Stathis Arapostathis and Graham Dutfield, 'Introduction: Innovation Governance and Proprietary Culture', in Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property: Concepts, Actors and Practices from the Past to the Present, Arapostathis and Dutfield (eds), 1-16.
Presentations (invited)
Universities and Institutions outside Greece
Stathis Arapostathis, "Co-producing Environment and Agriculture in Greece, 1945-2010: Experts and the water-toxicity nexus", ISSP (Institute of Science, Society and Public Policy), University of Ottawa, 27 May 2019.
Stathis Arapostathis, "Expertising Greece: Environment and Agriculture Policies from 1945 to 2010", Seeger Center of Greek Studies, Princeton University, 29/3/2019.
Stathis Arapostathis, Helmuth Trischler and Robert Bud, "Nuclear as Public Technology", webinar, HoNESt: History of Nuclear Energy and Society, 1/2/2019
Stathis Arapostathis, 'From History to Policy Concerns: STS, Law and Expertise-Topics and Problems of STS in Greece', Plenary Speaker, L' IFRIS (L' Institue Franciliene Research Innovation Societe) Summer School, Athens, June 2016
Stathis Arapostathis, 'Industrial 'Property', Law and the Politics of Invention in Greece, 1900-1940', Centre of Science and Innovation Studies, Law School, UC Davis, Davis, USA, 19 April 2016
Stathis Arapostathis, 'IPR and Industrial Culture in 20th century Greece', Seminar Series, Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 18 November 2015
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Owning and Disowning Wireless: Experts, Law and Technology in Law Courts’, Law and Technology Annual Douglas Byrne Marconi Lecture, University of Oxford, 11 May 2012.
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Lamps Socially Constructed: Patent Management, Ownership and Identity in Britain, 1880-1920’, Owning and Disowning Invention Workshop, 24 March 2009, University of Leeds, Leeds.
Yiannis Garyfallos, Stathis Arapostathis and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Transnational Energy Flows and Blackout Risks in a Balkan European Context’, Second Eurocrit Workshop, Singtuna/Stockholm, Sweden, 25-26 May 2008.
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Innovations, Engineering Practices and Roles in Consulting: The Case of John Hopkinson, 1878-1898’, Themes and Problems in the History of Science and Technology (Seminar Series), Modern History Faculty, Oxford University, 4/11/2004.
Universities and Institutions in GREECE
Στάθης Αραποστάθης, 'Περίπατος εις τον ανθώνα των ελληνικών εφευρέσεων’: ιστορίες εφευρέσεων, αναπαραστάσεων, νομικών οντολογιών και πολιτικών βιομηχανικής ιδιοκτησίας στην Ελλάδα του 20ου αιώνα', Ανοικτό Σεμινάριο Οικονομικής Ιστορίας, ΕΚΠΑ, 7/3/2017
http://www.e-history.eu/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=152
Στάθης Αραποστάθης ' Επιστήμη, Τεχνολογία, Κοινωνία:Νέες προσεγγίσεις για τις τεχνοεπιστήμες και κάποια παραδείγματα από τον αγροτικό και διατροφικό τομέα', Γεωπονικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, 27/5/2016 ('Science, Technology and Society: New approaches on techno-sciences and examples from the agro-food sector')
Stathis Arapostathis, 'Patents and Academic Entrepreneurship: Risks and Pitfalls', Participation in Roundtable session, Protection of Academic Research and Technical Information: Workshop, National Technical University of Athens, 5 December 2014, Athens
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Patently Contestable: Inventions, Inventors and Proprietary Regimes in Victorian Britain’, Invited Seminar in the Postgraduate Programme Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs, National Research Foundation, Athens, November 2014
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘From Strong Programme to the Third Wave of Science and Technology Studies’, Invited lecture in the Summer School ‘Theory of Science’, Plato Academy Project, Hellenic World Institute, Athens, July 2013 and July 2014 (in English)
Stathis Arapostathis, ‘Patents and Lamps’, Public Lecture Series, Evgenidio Science Museum, Athens, March 2013 (in Greek)
Stathis Arapostathis and Spyros Tzokas, ‘Consulting Engineers: Historical and Historigraphical Approaches based on cases in Greece and Britain’, Seminar Series in Economic History, National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), February 2013 (in Greek)
Stathis Arapostathis and Aristotle Tympas, ‘From the History of Modern Technologies to Technology Policy’, Sustainability Days 2007, Hellenic Observatory for the Society of Knowledge, 23-24 May 2007, School of Public Health, Athens, Greece (in Greek)
1/3/2007-30/6/2007, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Invited lecturer in a series of four (4) lectures in the module: Introduction in the History of Technology (in Greek).
December 2006, University of Thessaly, Department of Computing Engineering, Invited speaker, Lecture title: ‘Histories of Innovations, Failures and Technological Changes in the Information Era’ (in Greek).