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View article: The History of Knowledge
The History of Knowledge Open
This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. However, it is not primarily a state-of-the-art overview but rather an argumentative contributio…
View article: Mobilizing Scandinavian Children and Youth for the Environment: Launching a Transnational Campaign 1968–1971
Mobilizing Scandinavian Children and Youth for the Environment: Launching a Transnational Campaign 1968–1971 Open
In 1968, Swedish insurance company Folksam launched the information campaign Front mot miljöförstöringen (“Front against Environmental Degradation”). The campaign culminated in 1969 with large public hearings where young people addressed l…
View article: 9 Thinking the Human System
9 Thinking the Human System Open
Between 1967 and 1972, Swedish futures studies emerged as a distinct political and intellectual endeavor.In this development, the humanities and social sciences played a special role, especially through the idea that human knowledge and kn…
View article: The Making of Everyman’s Capitalism in Sweden: Micro-Infrastructures, Unlearning, and Moral Boundary Work
The Making of Everyman’s Capitalism in Sweden: Micro-Infrastructures, Unlearning, and Moral Boundary Work Open
This article analyzes the so-called turn to the market in Sweden, with an emphasis on aspects that are typically absent from large-scale narratives. How did the changes known as neoliberalization and financialization enter everyday life an…
View article: The environmental turn in postwar Sweden
The environmental turn in postwar Sweden Open
This book tells the story of how modern environmentalism emerged in postwar Sweden. It shows that the ‘environmental turn’ in Sweden occurred as early as the autumn of 1967 and that natural scientists led the way. The most influential was …
View article: The emergence of the modern environmental movements, 1959–1972
The emergence of the modern environmental movements, 1959–1972 Open
This chapter address the issues of when, how, and with what consequences modern environmental movements emerged. The focus is on the organization Nature and Youth Sweden and its engagement in and for the environmental turn. The organizatio…
View article: How the journalist and the historian came to the environmental issues, 1964–1969
How the journalist and the historian came to the environmental issues, 1964–1969 Open
This chapter provides a new perspective on the environmental turn by deliberately putting the spotlight on two non-scientists. The chapter tells the story of how journalist Barbro Soller and historian Birgitta Odén became engaged in enviro…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This chapter introduces the main research problem, taking its starting point in the UN's first Conference on the Human Environment, arranged in Stockholm in 1972. By then, knowledge of a global environmental crisis had circulated widely in…
View article: Index
Index Open
A collection of essays about the Colonial Medical Service of Africa in which a group of distinguished colonial historians illustrate the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision.…
View article: The route to the breakthrough, 1948–1967
The route to the breakthrough, 1948–1967 Open
This chapter tells the prehistory of the big breakthrough in 1967 and situates this Swedish history within a larger international context. Was it really true that something radically new happened in the autumn of 1967? Had environmental is…
View article: Bibliography
Bibliography Open
A collection of essays about the Colonial Medical Service of Africa in which a group of distinguished colonial historians illustrate the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision.…
View article: The environment and the Swedish public, 1967–1968
The environment and the Swedish public, 1967–1968 Open
This chapter focuses on how the big breakthrough of environmental issues in the autumn of 1967 paved the way for diverse forms of popular engagement. The chapter is based on Hans Palmstierna's preserved correspondence. This unique material…
View article: A new history of knowledge
A new history of knowledge Open
The concluding chapter highlights the study's most important results: the big breakthrough took place in the autumn of 1967; the driving actors were natural scientists; environmental issues began to be seen as a threat to the survival of h…
View article: Conflicts and media storms, 1971–1972
Conflicts and media storms, 1971–1972 Open
This chapter highlights how the dynamics of the environmental debate in Sweden changed during the early 1970s. Partly, it was the new environmental movements that raised the level of conflict. However, representatives of the establishment …
View article: The big breakthrough of environmental issues in Sweden, autumn 1967
The big breakthrough of environmental issues in Sweden, autumn 1967 Open
The chapter provides an in-depth account of the moment when the environmental debate in Sweden took off: the autumn of 1967. Special emphasis is put on the choir of natural scientists who at this point in time started to warn the public an…
View article: Den gröna vändningen: En ny kunskapshistoria om miljöfrågornas genombrott under efterkrigstiden
Den gröna vändningen: En ny kunskapshistoria om miljöfrågornas genombrott under efterkrigstiden Open
The Stockholm Conference 1972 drew the world’s attention to the global environmental crisis. To the inhabitants of Sweden, however, this threat to the planet and to humanity was nothing new. Anyone who regularly read newspapers, listened t…
View article: Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia : Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations
Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia : Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations Open
"This book uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. Contributors examine …
View article: Nuclear fallout as risk
Nuclear fallout as risk Open
Among the consequences of nuclear fallout in the Cold War West was a new wave of fear concerning everyday existence and the future of human civilisation. In this chapter, the author examines the Danish debate over fallout by asking how kno…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on how this international debate was received, reflected upon, and replayed in Denmark. It focuses on how global…
View article: The emergence of environmental journalism in 1960s Sweden
The emergence of environmental journalism in 1960s Sweden Open
In this chapter, the author seeks to substantiate, and methodologically reflect upon, the practical implications of working with digitised source materials. He demonstrates and discusses new visibility by highlighting the trajectories of t…
View article: Routes of knowledge: The transformation and circulation of knowledge in UNESCO Courier, 1947–55
Routes of knowledge: The transformation and circulation of knowledge in UNESCO Courier, 1947–55 Open
From the perspective of the history of knowledge, UNESCO is a par- ticularly interesting organization because of its sweeping ambitions for the production and circulation of knowledge on several different levels ever since its creation in …
View article: Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge
Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge Open
Historians have long been interested in knowledge—its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created—but it has only been in recent years that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own righ…
View article: A Classical Tragedy in the Making: Rolf Edberg’s Use of Antiquity and the Emergence of Environmentalism in Scandinavia
A Classical Tragedy in the Making: Rolf Edberg’s Use of Antiquity and the Emergence of Environmentalism in Scandinavia Open
The article offers the author's insights regarding the eco-political message of Swedish diplomat and politician Rolf Edberg featured in his book On the Shred of a Cloud. The author discusses the importance of Edberg's reading of antiquity …