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Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations book cover

1st Edition

Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations

Edited By Johan Östling, Niklas Olsen, David Larsson Heidenblad Copyright 2020
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia 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. This book focuses on a period when the term "knowledge society" was coined and rapidly found traction. In Scandinavia, society’s relationship... Read more

Introduction

Histories of knowledge in postwar Scandinavia

Johan Östling, Niklas Olsen, and David Larsson Heidenblad

Part 1: The environment and global crises

1. Nuclear fallout as risk: Denmark and the thermonuclear revolution

Casper Sylvest

2. Georg Borgström and the population-food dilemma: Reception and consequences in Norwegian public debate, 1950s and 1960s

Sunniva Engh

3. The emergence of environmental journalism in 1960s Sweden: Methodological reflections on working with digitalised newspapers

David Larsson Heidenblad

4. "Revolt from the center": Socio-environmental protest from idea to praxis in Denmark, 1978–1993

Bo Fritzbøger

Part 2: Economy, politics, and the welfare state

5. The Galbraithian moment: Affluence and critique of growth in Scandinavia, 1958–1972

Björn Lundberg

6. Welfare state criticism as elite criticism in 1970s Denmark

Niklas Olsen

7. The entrepreneur’s dream: Credit card history between PR and academic research

Orsi Husz

8. State feminism revisited as lieux de savoir: Fabrics of the Scandinavian knowledge society, c. 1960–1980

Eirinn Larsen

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

Anton Jansson

10. Sex education and the state: Norwegian schools as arenas of knowledge in the 1970s

Kari Hernæs Nordberg

11. Mobilising the outsider: Crises and histories of the humanities in the 1970s Scandinavian welfare states

Hampus Östh Gustafsson

12. Revolting against the established book market: Book cafes as key actors within the counterpublic of the Scandinavian New Left

Ragni Svensson

Epilogue

Scandinavia: A Corporatist Model of Knowledge?

Johan Strang

Biography

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.

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