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- Andersson, Jenny, et al.
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Thinking the Human System : The Application of Humanities and Social Science Reasoning to Societal Problems
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge : The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020 - The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020. - 9789463728867 - 9789048555024 ; , s. 207-230
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Between 1967 and 1972, Swedish futures studies emerged as a distinct political and intellectual endeavor. In this development, the humanities and social sciences played a special role, especially through the idea that human knowledge and knowledge about a “human system” could be brought to bear on societal problems and used to forge a new approach to the future. We focus here on two scholars, historian Birgitta Odén and geographer Torsten Hägerstrand, proposing that they were important f igures in developing a new engagement with problems of social and human time in Swedish social science and humanities research.
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- Ekström, Anders, Professor, 1965-
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Forging the Integrative Humanities : Policies and Prospects
- 2022. - 1
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Ingår i: The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789463728867 - 9789048555024 ; , s. 275-289
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on the results of this volume, this chapter reflects on the roleof the integrative humanities in contemporary knowledge policies. Itidentifies a long-standing tension in the history of the humanities between,on the one hand, an orientation toward integrative knowledge production,social responsiveness, and communication, and, on the other hand, amarginalizing tendency of reactive critique and disciplinary-bound selfreflection. The chapter situates the continuous relevance of this tensionin the context of three overlapping policy regimes, and the emergence ofa modern framework for policy work in Sweden in the last half-century.The chapter concludes by taking a more normative approach, arguing thata principal contribution of the humanities to contemporary knowledgepolitics lies in their public orientation
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- Ekström, Anders, Professor, 1965-, et al.
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Introduction : Politics of Knowledge and the Modern History of the Humanities
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Ingår i: The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge. - : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789463728867 - 9789048555024 ; , s. 7-35
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The history of the humanities needs to move beyond the focus on tra-ditional disciplines and historicize notions regarding the impact andorganization of the humanities in a long historical perspective. The presentedited volume, based on case studies of Sweden in the modern period,provides an important contribution to such an endeavor. This introductionproposes an analytical framework by special reference to “knowledgepolitics,” a concept that allows a flexible and aggregated examination ofhow societies have valued and politicized the organization, balancing,and circulation of knowledge on a broad scale. The national case in pointprovides illuminating insights into how the humanities over time had torelate to various regimes of legitimacy and enables comparisons on aninternational scale.
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- Hammar, Isak, et al.
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Measuring Up to the Humanities : Navigating the Epistemological Advantage of Classical Humanism in Nineteenth-Century Scholarly Periodicals
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge : The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020 - The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020. - : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789463728867 - 9789048555024 ; , s. 39-59
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter analyzes the epistemological hierarchy around the middleof the nineteenth century in Sweden through efforts to mobilize supportfor natural science in scholarly periodicals. It is argued that scholarlycommunication was key to achieving legitimacy for natural science, butthat such efforts were mitigated by a dominant view of the humanitiesin general and classical humanism in particular as more valuable tosociety. Tensions between natural science and classical humanism wereexpressed in negotiations of the nebulous concept of bildning – the Swedishequivalent of the German Bildung – and the article demonstrates hownatural scientists tried to navigate its semantic usage and advocate theview that natural science could achieve the educational goals associatedwith classical humanism.
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- Östling, Johan, et al.
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Public Arenas of the Humanities : The Circulation of Knowledge in the Postwar Period
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge : The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1800–2020 - The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1800–2020. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789463728867 - 9789048555024 ; , s. 155-178
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how a new history of thepostwar humanities could be written. Drawing on approaches from thehistory of knowledge, it outlines the conditions of the circulation ofknowledge in the public sphere during the 1960s and 1970s. By introducing“public arena of knowledge” as an analytical concept, the authors highlightcertain media platforms where circulation of knowledge occurred. As theirempirical examples, they focus on paperback series and the Christianpublic sphere. All in all, the chapter underlines the importance of thehumanities for a wider circulation of knowledge and thereby challengesa crisis narrative of the humanities of the postwar period that is prevalentin established historiography.
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- Landahl, Joakim, et al.
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Pedagogy and the humanities : changing boundaries in the academic map of knowledge, 1860s-1960s
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Humanities and the modern politics of knowledge. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789048555024 - 9048555027 ; , s. 81-103
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter traces the history of the relation between pedagogy and the humanities from a long time-perspective, spanning the 1860s to the 1960s. Focusing on boundary drawing processes, we distinguish two major shifts in which pedagogy established itself as a distinct discipline. The first consisted of a separation from philosophy, the second of a separation from psychology. Through and along this process, pedagogy became increasingly separated from the humanities and ended up in the new social science faculty in the 1960s. As pedagogy also got a central role in the new professional teacher education outside of the universities, its position as a non-humanistic discipline became manifest.
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- Tunlid, Anna, et al.
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“Humanities 2000” : Legitimizing Discourses of the Humanities in Public Debate and Research Policy at the Turn of the Century
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge : The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850–2020 - The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850–2020. - : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789048555024 ; , s. 253-274
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter analyzes the legitimizing discourse of the humanities in two different public debates in Sweden at the end of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The first debate concerned the marginalized role of the humanities and their relation to the broader public, while the second was strongly influenced by current research policies, which had a strong focus on scientific excellence, innovation, and economic growth. While reactive strategies dominated in the 1980s legiti-mizing discourse, I will argue that more generative strategies developed during the early 2000s, particularly through an attempt to redefine the concept of “usefulness” beyond the instrumental connotations commonly associated with the concept.
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