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- Helmius, Agneta, 1960-
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Mode och hushåll : Om formandet av kön och media i frihetstidens svenska små- och veckoskrifter
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis, Fashion and the household: The formation of media and gender in 18th Century Swedish periodicals and pamphlets, deals with the formation of media and gender in 18th Century Sweden using fashion and the household as themes of discussion and gender as an analytical category. The material used consists of periodicals, small prints and series of pamphlets published from the 1730s to the 1770s in Sweden, and one engraving showing five housewives beating a husband on his bare buttocks printed in 1755. According to both writers of that time and to earlier research these periodicals and pamphlets, printed in small editions and circulated mostly in the capital of Stockholm, meant a breakthrough for a new public discourse. One aim is to study how gender was used, discussed and constructed in this new media. Another aim is to study how gender was used to create modern forward looking identities. Of particular interest in this new media is the debate on modernity and how it brought about new views on modern society including both gender relations and the construction of public and private spheres. The public discourse fostered a debate on the privatization of the household.The perspective chosen is meant to show how gender was used differently, on different levels by both male and female writers depending on purpose or agenda and sometimes in opposition to the described changes taking place. Gender could be used both benevolently and with hostility.By using gender as analytical category the public discourse studied in this thesis is decoded showing how both society and the public discourse, simultaneously, were gendered in new ways. It presents a debate of modernity on the threshold to modernity, and a debate on the exploitation of private vices and the privatization or marginalization of the household, later to be described as a division of private and public spheres.
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Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe : Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War
- 2012
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual pursuits as a foundation of a professional ethos. Time and again scientists and other intellectuals have claimed their endeavors to be neutral, elevated above the world of partisan conflict and power politics. This volume studies the resonances between neutrality in science and culture and neutrality in politics. By analyzing the activities of scientists, intellectuals, and politicians (sometimes overlapping categories) of mostly neutral nations in the First World War and after, it traces how an ideology of neutralism was developed that soon was embraced by international organizations.This book explores how the notion of neutrality has been used and how a neutralist discourse developed in history. None of the contributions take claims of neutrality at face value – some even show how they were made to advance partisan interests. The concept was typically clustered with notions, such as peace, internationalism, objectivity, rationality, and civilization. But its meaning was changeable – varying with professional, ideological, or national context. As such, Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe presents a different perspective on the century than the story of the great belligerent powers, and one in which science, culture, and politics are inextricably mixed.
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- Widmalm, Sven, 1956-
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Normal Science Prizes in the Swedish Academy of Sciences before Nobel
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nuncius. - : Brill. - 0394-7394 .- 1825-3911. ; 34:2, s. 356-376
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Prizes have been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from its foundation in 1739 onwards. In the 18th century these were of a kind typical of the period: problems were posed, almost always with a utilitarian bent, and awards (money or medals) were promised to those who could come up with practical solutions. The Academy's first prize question, in 1739, concerned an improved method for bleaching cloth; the response was zero, a not untypical result. This type of award was never a success, and from around 1810 prizes became more academically oriented and were offered for recent publications or innovations rather than solutions to problems posed beforehand. The Letterstedt Prize was the most important among these awards during the 19th century, and a model for the Nobel Prize. It was awarded mostly for work in the natural sciences, but sometimes also in the humanities or for technological innovations (Alfred Nobel received it in 1868); a special prize was awarded for translations. An analysis of nominations and discussions preserved in the Academy's archive shows that the Letterstedt science prizes functioned as a kind of benchmarking of national science (foreigners were not awarded on principle); high-quality "normal" science that seemed to put Swedish science on par with research in countries like Germany or France was awarded rather than work of high originality.
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- Bigg, Charlotte, et al.
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The art of gathering : histories of international scientific conferences
- 2023
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Ingår i: British Journal for the History of Science. - : CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. - 0007-0874 .- 1474-001X. ; 56:4 SI, s. 423-433
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hundreds of thousands of conferences have taken place since their first appearance in the late eighteenth century, yet the history of science has often treated them as stages for scientific practice, not as the play itself. Drawing on recent work in the history of science and of international relations, the introduction to this special issue suggests avenues for exploring the phenomenon of the international scientific conference, broadly construed, by highlighting the connected dimensions of communication, sociability and international relations. It lays out a typology of scientific conferences as a way of gaining an overview of their diversity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that the international scientific conference is a central locus for understanding science as a social, cultural and political practice.
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- Björkman, Maria, et al.
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Collaboration and normalization
- 2019
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Ingår i: Intellectual Collaboration with the Third Reich. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9780815394747 - 9781351185110 ; , s. 1-20, s. 1-20
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Vetenskapens sociala strukturer : sju historiska fallstudier om konflikt, samverkan och makt
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vetenskap, forskning, kunskap, lärande - detta är vanligt förekommande begrepp i dagens samhällsdiskussion. De används inte minst när globala ekonomiska frågor eller hot och risker på miljöområdet diskuteras. Det sägs ofta att vi lever i ett kunskapssamhälle och vetenskapen står ständigt i blickpunkten när dagens ödesfrågor diskuteras. Men vad vet vi egentligen om forskningens utvecklingsmöjligheter, vad som formar den och hur den har fått sin nuvarande ställning?I Vetenskapens sociala strukturer utgår forskarna från den moderna diskussionen inom samhällsvetenskap och humaniora om hur vetenskapen formar och formas av samtidens strömningar. I en inledande översikt diskuteras bland annat gränsdragning, samproduktion och nätverk. Diskussionen fördjupas sedan i sju historiska fallstudier som behandlar svensk vetenskap under främst 1900-talet.I fallstudierna fokuserar författarna på villkoren för hur vetenskaplig kunskap tas upp och används för olika ändamål industrin och tekniken men också skolan och politiken. Texterna lyfter fram vetenskapens föränderliga karaktär över tiden och mellan olika vetenskapsområden. I bokens efterord diskuteras hur vetenskapshistoriska studier kan användas i den allt intensivare forskningspolitiska diskussionen som länge präglats av historielöshet.
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Communicating the History of Medicine : Perspectives on Audiences and Impact
- 2020
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Communicating the History of Medicine critically assesses the idea of audience and communication in medical history. This collection offers a range of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a more nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging audiences for research in the humanities.For whom do academic researchers in the humanities write? For academics and, indirectly, at least for students, but there are hopes that work reaches broader audiences and that it will have an impact on policy or among professional experts outside of the humanities. Today impact is more and more discussed in the context of research assessment. Seen from a media theoretical perspective, impact may however be described as a case of 'audiencing' and the creation of audiences by means of media technologies.
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- Widmalm, Sven, 1956-, et al.
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Conferences : constructingknowledge and communities
- 2022
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Ingår i: Viewpoint: Magazine of the British Society for History of Science. - London : The British Society for History of Science. ; :126, s. 6-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Widmalm, Sven, 1956-
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History of Science in the Age of Policy
- 2008
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Ingår i: <em>Aurora Torealis</em>. - Sagamore Beach : Science History Publications. - 9780881353983 ; , s. 259-275
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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