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Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland - New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland - New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Update: 2025-09-01
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Tiia Sahrakorpi, Visiting Professor at Weber State University, about her interesting book project, Our Land: An Oral History of Energy, which was funded by the Research Council of Finland. The project, which was rooted in oral histories in three locations in Finland, takes a use-based perspective and examines how ordinary Finnish people adopted and used electricity.

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Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland - New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland - New Books in Science, Technology, and Society