Alexander Badenoch
Alexander (Alec) Badenoch is Lecturer in Media and Cultural studies at the University of Utrecht where he is the leading researcher on the HERA-project “Transnational Radio Encounters IP4 International Services Between Expats, Emprie and Education”. A native of the USA, he has a PhD in modern languages from the University of Southampton (UK). He was a post-doc on the Transnational Infrastructures in Europe (TIE) project at the TU Eindhoven, and postdoc at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and scientific secretary of the research Axis "material civilization" for the Laboratorie d'Excellence "Ecrire one nouvelle histoire de l'Europe". He is author of Voices in Ruins: West German radio across the 1945 divide (Palgrave, 2008), co-author, with Sarah Moss, of Chocolate: A Global History (Reaktion, 2009) and editor, with Andreas Fickers, of Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (2010), which presents some of the TIE project research. He is a member of the management committee of the Tensions of Europe network, and Vice-President of the Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte. His research interests include European and international broadcasting history, technology and territorial identities, and constructions of domesticity and home.
Tours by this Curator
![The birth of the cool](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1012-the-birth-of-the-cool.jpg)
![More than a place to cook](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1013-more-than-a-place-to-cook.jpg)
![Cooling the Cold War: the American fridge as a symbol](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1014-cooling-the-cold-war-the-american-fridge-as-a-symbol.jpg)
![The end of the chain](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1015-the-end-of-the-chain.jpg)
![Cool and collective](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1016-cool-and-collective.jpg)
![Making room for the "European" Fridge](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1017-making-room-for-the-european-fridge.jpg)
Fridges Change
Kitchens
Read how Europeans made space for refrigerators - and refrigerators changed for European spaces.
![Nationalizing international waters](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1036-nationalizing-international-waters.jpg)
![National resources and international enterprise: discovering Ekofisk](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1037-national-resources-and-international-enterprise-discovering-ekofisk.jpg)
![Networking the product](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1038-networking-the-product.jpg)
![Building a city in the sea](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1039-building-a-city-in-the-sea.jpg)
![Human error](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1040-human-error.jpg)
![Lessons learned?](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1041-lessons-learned.jpg)
Ekofisk and
the North Sea
With the discovery of the Ekofisk oil field, the North Sea became a new international resource...
![Listening to space](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1099-listening-to-space.jpg)
![Pharaonic works: making all the world a stage](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1100-pharaonic-works-making-all-the-world-a-stage.jpg)
![Catching Telstar](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1101-catching-telstar.jpg)
![Global vision - and cross-channel discord](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1102-global-vision-and-cross-channel-discord.jpg)
![](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1103-mondovision-goes-live-briefly.jpg)
![One big nuclear family?](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1104-one-big-nuclear-family.jpg)
Mondovision &
Sputnik
Many dreamed that satellites would unify the world, but Telstar revealed divisions on the ground.
![New freedoms: cycling women](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1111-new-freedoms-cycling-women.jpg)
![Cars and planes blaze new trails in the 1920s and 1930s](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1112-cars-and-planes-blaze-new-trails-in-the-1920s-and-1930s.jpg)
![High-flying celebrity: the global aviator](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1113-high-flying-celebrity-the-global-aviator.jpg)
![Working relationships: women and planes](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1114-working-relationships-women-and-planes.jpg)
![Women encounter the empire](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1115-women-encounter-the-empire.jpg)
Girls and
their Toys
Bicycles, cars and planes set European women free - and brought them into new conflicts
![](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1133-there-is-a-common-language-a-common-logic-a-common-mathematics.jpg)
![The noble history of the index card: Universal Decimal Classification](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1134-the-noble-history-of-the-index-card-universal-decimal-classification.jpg)
![A museum without borders](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1135-a-museum-without-borders.jpg)
![Isotype: a universal language for social information](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1136-isotype-a-universal-language-for-social-information.jpg)
![The World Wide Web as Otlet](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1137-the-world-wide-web-as-otlets-ghost.jpg)
![Making a place for Europe in the World (Wide Web): Europeana](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1138-making-a-place-for-europe-in-the-world-wide-web-europeana.jpg)
Knowing
Everything
From index cards to the internet, read about plans to collect and communicate all the knowledge in the world
![CERN: the new model for European co-operation](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1139-cern-the-new-model-for-european-co-operation.jpg)
![ESRO and ELDO: science vs. technology](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1140-esro-and-eldo-science-vs-technology.jpg)
![Europa 2 as collection of national projects](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1141-europa-2-as-collection-of-national-projects.jpg)
![Europe goes up with a bang](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1142-europe-goes-up-with-a-bang.jpg)
![The unfinished Symphonie](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/1143-the-unfinished-symphonie.jpg)
ELDO, the
Space Flop
After Sputnik woke up the world to space, Western European countries joined the space race together - with less than high-flying results.
![New tools, new experts](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/982-new-tools-new-experts.jpg)
![The home economics movement](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/983-the-home-economics-movement.jpg)
![Creating](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/984-creating-domestic-science.jpg)
![Electrifying instruction](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/985-electrifying-instruction.jpg)
![Political flexibility of home economics](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/986-political-flexibility-of-home-economics.jpg)
![Home economics away from home:](https://www.inventingeurope.eu/wp-content/themes/inveur/img/objects/987-home-economics-away-from-home-home-economist-as-a-profession.jpg)
Home Economics
Movement
The science of 'home economics' meant to improve women's work in the home - and also made jobs outside it.