TY  - GEN
T1  - Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia
A2  - Östling, Johan
LA  - eng
PB  - Taylor & Francis
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-122169
AB  - 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 to rational forms of knowledge became vital to the self-understanding and political ambitions of the era. Taking advantage of contemporary discussions about the circulation, arenas, forms, applications and actors of knowledge, contributors examine various forms of knowledge – economic, environmental, humanistic, religious, political, and sexual – that provide insight into the making and functioning of postwar Scandinavian societies and offer innovative studies that contribute to the development of the history of knowledge at large. The concentration on knowledge rather than the welfare state, the Cold War or the new social and political movements, which to date have attracted the lion’s share of scholarly attention, ensures the book makes a historiographical intervention in postwar Scandinavian historiography. Offering a stimulating point of departure for those interested in the history of knowledge and the circulation of knowledge, this is a vital resource for students and scholars of postwar Scandinavia that provides fresh perspectives and new methodologies for exploration.
SN  - 9781000075069
SN  - 9781003019275
SN  - 9780367894559
SN  - 9780367503604
KW  - Cold War
KW  - circulation of knowledge
KW  - historical method
KW  - historical theory
KW  - history of knowledge
KW  - history of the book
KW  - history of the humanities
KW  - history of the social sciences
KW  - knowledge circulation
KW  - postwar period
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - welfare state
ER  -