| Department |
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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| Function |
Affiliated Postdoc Researcher
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| Short biography |
Dr. Serkan Karas is historian of technology with a specialisation in themes concerning infrastructures, expertise and techno-politics. He has several publications on topics related to politics and sociology of expertise, and infrastructure techno-politics. During his lectureship in Bilkent University, he taught undergraduate STS classes on expertise, risk, governance and knowledge management. He is currently co-organising the graduate seminar “Governance, Risk, Environment: Themes of Science and Technology Policy” at University of Athens. His research interests are around subjects concerning science & technology policy, water-management & energy issues and border studies with a special focus in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
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He got his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey). He holds a MA in European Studies in Science, Technology and Society from the University of Maastricht and completed his PhD in History of Technology at the University of Athens. He has been granted Brooke Hindle Postdoc Fellowship by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) in 2015. He received Karen Freeze Fellowship (Tensions of Europe) in 2012, and Centenary Bursary by the British School at Athens (BSA) in 2010. He was born in Cyprus and speaks Turkish, Greek and English.
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| Recent publications |
Μοnograph:
Karas, S. Between politics and technopolitics: ‘constructive’ imperialism, experts and crisis in colonial Cyprus. Historical and Contemporary Cyprus Studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming 2018)
International peer-reviewed Journal Articles:
Karas, S. “Populist Challenges to the Traditional Economic Structures: Locusts, Loans and Banks “. Archivum Ottomanicum. Special Issue: From Muslims to Turks: The Turkish Cypriot Community (1856-1931), 35 (2018).
Arapostathis, S. & Karas, S. “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, 179-204.
Karas. S & Arapostathis, S. “Harbours of crisis and consent: The technopolitics of coastal infrastructure in colonial Cyprus, 1895–1908.” The Journal of Transport History, vol. 37(2), 2016, 214-235
Book Chapters:
Karas, S. & Arapostathis, S. “Electrical Colonialism: Techno-politics, British Engineering Expertise and the making of Electricity Supply Industry in Cyprus.” Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier, Stéphanie Le Gallic (dir.), Mondes électriques / Electric Worlds. Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions (19e-21e siècles), Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2016
Tympas, A., Konsta, H., Lekkas, T. and Karas, S. “Constructing Gender and Technology in Advertising Images”, Gender Codes (ed T. J. Misa), New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons –IEEE, 2010
Conference Proceedings:
International Conference Contours Of The Future: Technology And Innovation In Cultural Context, Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University,1 -3 November 2017, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Encyclopaedia entry:
Karas, S. “Not so strategic: colonial Cyprus’s harbours and railway”, LabEx, The Encyclopaedia of a New History of Europe (forthcoming 2017)
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| Additional research interests |
sustainability transition, risk management, anti-microbial resistance, aquaculture
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