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Det var med Stockholmskonferensen 1972 som världens uppmärksamhet för första gången på allvar riktades mot vår hotade livsmiljö. För den svenska allmänheten var problematiken dock ganska välkänd. I press och etermedier var miljöfrågorna ständigt närvarande. Men bara fem år tidigare, 1967, hade läget varit annorlunda. Då betraktades det inte alls som en självklarhet att människan var i färd med att förstöra sin egen planet. Men vem eller vilka var det som satte bollen i rullning, började ställa frågor och förflytta perspektiven? Historikern David Larsson Heidenblad belyser händelserna som på kort tid orsakade ett radikalt skifte. Den gröna vändningen åren kring 1970 har fått stora efterverkningar inom en mängd områden. Men hur gick det egentligen till? Vad var det som gjorde att människor fick upp ögonen för miljökrisen, och vilken betydelse har denna historia för oss i dag? Läsaren får nya och viktiga svar på frågor som angår oss alla

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.

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 right. 'Circulation of Knowledge', a group of Nordic scholars explore a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to this new and exciting area of historical research. The question of knowledge in motion is central to their investigations, and especially how knowledge is transformed when it circulates between different societal arenas, literary genres, or forms of media. Reflecting on twelve empirical studies, from sixteenth-century cartography to sexology in the 1970s, the authors make a significant contribution to the growing international research on the history of knowledge