Jenny Andersson
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The book opens new perspectives on the global Cold War by looking at social and economic planning. Despite the rival visions of the world that they put forward, social regulating ideas and practices were also at the core of a common project of modernity. This volume will show how social and economic knowledge circulated globally and how it was reinterpreted and appropriated in various national and local contexts.
The idea of planning economy and...
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
This book addresses the shifting status of the humanities through a national case study spanning two centuries. The societal function of the humanities is considered from the flexible perspective of knowledge politics in order to historicize notions of impact and intellectual organization that tend to be taken for granted. The focus on modern Sweden enables an extended but still empirically coherent historical analysis, inviting critical comparisons...