Author: David Larsson Heidenblad
Associate professor of history and deputy director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK)
The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge
In the summer of 1971, an eleven-year-old boy in Gothenburg, Sweden, wrote a letter to the pioneering environmentalist Hans Palmstierna. The boy had recently read a report on the environment in a youth magazine and was shocked. “Is our little Tellus really in such bad shape?,” he asked, adding that it was terrible that there … Continue reading The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge
with Johan Östling
From Cultural History to the History of Knowledge
The history of knowledge is flourishing. Exciting conferences are being arranged, new institutional arrangements are emerging, and a whole range of fresh studies are being published. German-speaking scholars have led the way by proclaiming that Wissensgeschichte (the history of knowledge) is something different than Wissenschaftsgeschichte (the history of science and scholarship), and in the 2010s … Continue reading