Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia (eBook, ePUB)

Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations
Redaktion: Östling, Johan; Heidenblad, David Larsson; Olsen, Niklas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. A vital resource for students and scholars of postwar Scandinavia, it offers fresh perspectives and new methodologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000075298
• Artikelnr.: 59574538

Autorenporträt

Johan Östling is a Wallenberg Academy Fellow and the Director for the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). Östling's research encompasses the history of knowledge and modern European history. His recent publications include Humboldt and the Modern German University, Circulation of Knowledge and Forms of Knowledge. Niklas Olsen is an Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute and Chair of the Centre of Modern European Studies, University of Copenhagen. His research interests address European history in the twentieth century. His recent publications include The Sovereign Consumer: A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism. David Larsson Heidenblad is an Associate Professor and a Deputy Director for the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). He has an interest in the societal relevance of various forms of knowledge. His publications include Circulation of Knowledge and Forms of Knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Histories of knowledge in postwar Scandinavia Part 1: The environment and global crises 1. Nuclear fallout as risk: Denmark and the thermonuclear revolution 2. Georg Borgström and the population-food dilemma: Reception and consequences in Norwegian public debate, 1950s and 1960s 3. The emergence of environmental journalism in 1960s Sweden: Methodological reflections on working with digitalised newspapers 4. "Revolt from the center": Socio-environmental protest from idea to praxis in Denmark, 1978-1993 Part 2: Economy, politics, and the welfare state 5. The Galbraithian moment: Affluence and critique of growth in Scandinavia, 1958-1972 6. Welfare state criticism as elite criticism in 1970s Denmark 7. The entrepreneur's dream: Credit card history between PR and academic research 8. State feminism revisited as lieux de savoir: Fabrics of the Scandinavian knowledge society, c. 1960-1980 Part 3: Education, culture, and the humanities 9. The city, the church, and the 1960s: On secularisation theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox's The Secular City 10. Sex education and the state: Norwegian schools as arenas of knowledge in the 1970s 11. Mobilising the outsider: Crises and histories of the humanities in the 1970s Scandinavian welfare states 12. Revolting against the established book market: Book cafes as key actors within the counterpublic of the Scandinavian New Left Epilogue Scandinavia: A Corporatist Model of Knowledge?