General books

We have published a trilogy about the history of knowledge. The three volumes explore the field and introduce key analytical concepts. All three book are available open access:

Circulation of Knowledge (2018): https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/36167357/Circulation_of_Knowledge.pdf

Forms of Knowledge (2020): https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/76263844/Forms_of_Knowledge.pdf

Knowledge Actors (2023): https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/152543329/Knowledge_Actors_OA.pdf

Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad have also published the introductory book The History of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press). It provides an overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. The History of Knowledge is available open access: https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/publications/the-history-of-knowledge

Theoretical, methodological and historiographical contributions (selection):

Hammar, Isak & Östling, Johan, ”Forum: The Circulation of Knowledge and the History of Humanities”, History of Humanities, 6:2 (2021) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2021/6/2

Lundberg, Björn, “Special issue: Exploring the History of Knowledge and Education”, Nordic Journal of Educational History, 9:2 (2022). https://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/njedh/issue/view/33/20

Nilsson Hammar, Anna & Kajsa Weber, “Från religiös kultur till konfessionell kunskap”, Historisk tidskrift, 141, no. 1 (2021). https://www.historisktidskrift.se/index.php/june20/article/view/150/113

Nilsson Hammar, Anna, “Theoria, Praxis, and Poiesis: Theoretical Considerations on the Circulation of Knowledge in Everyday Life”, in Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge, edited by Johan Östling, Erling Sandmo, David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar & Kari H. Nordberg (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2018). https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/publications/theoria-praxis-and-poiesis(1c388cde-f7cb-4255-878f-504acda1b7f0).html

Östling, Johan & David Larsson Heidenblad, “Fulfilling the Promise of the History of Knowledge: Key Approaches for the 2020s”, Journal for the History of Knowledge, 1, no. 1 (2020). http://doi.org/10.5334/jhk.24

Östling, Johan, “Circulation, Arenas, and the Quest for Public Knowledge: Historiographical Currents and Analytical Frameworks”, History and Theory, 59, no. 4 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12184

Empirical studies (selection):

Bodensten, Erik, “A Societal History of Potato Knowledge in Sweden c. 1650–1800”, Scandinavian Journal of History, 46, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2020.1752301

Ericsson, Martin, “What Happened to ‘Race’ in Race Biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936–1960”, Scandinavian Journal of History, 46:1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2020.1778520

Hammar, Isak, “Classical Nature: Natural History, Classical Humanism, and the Value of Knowledge in Sweden, 1800–1850”, Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2 (1): 1. http://doi.org/10.5334/jhk.2

Larsson Heidenblad, David, “Mapping a New History of the Ecological Turn: The Circulation of Environmental Knowledge in Sweden 1967”, Environment and History, 24:2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3197/096734018X15137949591936

Larsson Heidenblad, David, The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge (Lund/Manchester University Press, 2021). https://doi.org/10.7765/9789198557749

Lundberg, Björn, “The Galbraithian Moment: Affluence and Critique of Growth in Scandinavia 1958–72”, in Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations, edited by Johan Östling, Niklas Olsen & David Larsson Heidenblad (London: Routledge, 2020). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003019275-8/galbraithian-moment-björn-lundberg?context=ubx&refId=0a7aace1-98c8-4e5b-bda3-91345bbf06c4

Nilsson Hammar, Anna & Svante Norrhem, “Knowing How: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency among Aristocratic Women in Early Modern Sweden”, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 17:2 (2023), 328-353.

Östling, Johan, Niklas Olsen & David Larsson Heidenblad (eds.), Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, arenas and aspirations (Routledge, 2020).

Östling, Johan, Anton Jansson & Ragni Svensson Stringberg, Humanister i offentligheten: Kunskapens arenor och aktörer under efterkrigstiden (Gothenburg & Stockholm: Makadam, 2022). https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/m/10.22188/kriterium.36/

Östling, Johan, Anton Jansson & Ragni Svensson Stringberg (eds.), Humaniora i välfärdssamhället: Kunskapshistorier om efterkrigstiden (Gothenburg & Stockholm: Makadam, 2023). https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.22188/kriterium.49/

Periodicals

History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society (De Gruyter; editor-in-chief Johan Östling et al.) https://www.degruyter.com/serial/HICU-B/html?lang=en

For more publications by researchers affiliated with LUCK, see: https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/projects/history-of-knowledge(c746f611-02ca-4de3-adc4-f84bd4f42bfb).html