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- Bertilsson, Fredrik, 1978-
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Den radioaktiva vetenskapen : Beredskapen mot kärnvapen och engagemanget för miljön i Sverige
- 2022
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In: Lychnos. - : Lychnos, Lund University. - 0076-1648. ; , s. 11-29
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- Throughout the Cold War, there was an extensive production of ideas and knowledge around radioactivity as a social hazard. Previous research shows that there is a lack of knowledge about the relationship between the preparedness against nuclear weapons that was built up in Sweden from the 1950s onwards and the environmental commit-ment that took shape a few decades later. The aim of this article is to contribute new knowledge about these historical conditions by examining the radioactivity research conducted at the Swedish National Defence Research Establishment [Försvarets for-skningsanstalt] (FOA). The exploration is focusing on a period during the 1960s and 1970s when questions about radioactivity in relation to nuclear weapons, nuclear power and the environment had a clear impact in Sweden. Swedish preparedness is usually associated with efforts to protect the human population. I show how animals, plants and other non-human life also became objects in defence research and the preparedness against radioactivity that the scientific work at FOA enabled. FOA was a Swedish governmental agency that provided scientific advice to the Swedish Total Defence. FOA operated at the intersection of military and civil science. The article is concerned with FOA’s ambitions and expressed interests. The primary empirical material consists of FOA publications. I focus on how radioactivity research was presented in Foatidningen that was published by FOA between 1963 and 2000.
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- Dalberg, Tobias, 1985-
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Histoire des sciences
- 2020
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In: Lychnos. - : Lärdomshistoriska Samfundet. - 0076-1648. ; , s. 352-354
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- Drakman, Annelie, Fil. dr. 1981-, et al.
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How to combine close and distant reading within the history of science and ideas : Two examples from ongoing research
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In: Lychnos. - Uppsala : Lärdomshistoriska Samfundet. - 0076-1648. ; , s. 85-108
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- This text gives two examples of how research within the history of science and ideas can make use of digital methods through a combination of close and distant reading. The first case maps all churches and prayer chapels in the Diocese of Luleå to answer the question if a Bible belt exists in Norrland; what it (if there is one) looks like, what its characteristics are, and how it has evolved over time. The spatio-temporal visualization both clarifies patterns of religious fervor and reveals “white spots”, creating questions for further research. In the second case distributional concept analysis is performed using Sketch Engine on the corpus enTenTen20, consisting of 38 billion words gathered in 2020 from the Anglophone Internet. Lists are assembled over which words are most often used together (co-locates) with creativity. Then, the research process is outlined, where use of such distant reading tools encourages returns to close readings of other materials (for instance speeches by American presidents) in an iterative process. The cases illustrate the benefits of moving between “distant” levels where digital methods show large patterns, and more specific, detailed, “close” levels, with focus on particular points of interest. We also show how this oscillation between large-scale computer aided methods, and small-scale interpretations generate new questions. Finally, we discuss our experiences of multidisciplinary approaches to digital history, and describe setbacks and unexpected wins.
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- Dunér, David
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Alkemi, utopi, kärleksmagi
- 2021
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In: Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria. - 0076-1648. ; 2021, s. 432-435
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