The Stockholm Conference 1972 drew the world’s attention to the global environmental crisis. To the inhabitants of Sweden, however, this threat to the planet and to humanity was nothing new. Anyone who regularly read newspapers, listened to the radio, or watched the television news would have encountered the issues. Five years earlier, in the summer of 1967, things were very different. At that time, it was not at all self-evident that humans were in the process of destroying their own living environment. Hence, in a short period of time, a radical change took place: an ‘environmental turn’. It had major and far-reaching consequences. But what was it that opened people’s eyes to the environmental crisis? When did it happen? Who set the ball rolling? And what does this historical process mean for us today? David Larsson Heidenblad’s book sheds new light on the emergence of modern environmentalism in Sweden and provides fresh insight to challenges that concerns us all.
Efterord NORDISK KUNSKAPSHISTORIA INFÖR 2020-TALET V idenshistorie -det som på engelska kallas history of knowledge, på tyska Wissensgeschichte och på svenska kunskapshistoria -har alla förutsättningar att bli ett av de mest vitala historievetenskapliga fälten under 2020-talet. 1 Under de senaste decennierna har det vuxit fram som ett nytt forskningsområde, men det är först under 2010-talets andra hälft som det har fått fastare form och blivit ett bredare, internationellt fenomen. Nya kunskapshistoriska bokserier och tidskrifter har grundats, samtidigt som en stor mängd forskningsprojekt har sjösatts. 2
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