Artiklen analyserer hvordan videnskabelig viden om radioaktiv stråling blev formidlet i den danske dagspresse i årene 1945 – 1963. Udgangspunktet er en undren over en ubekymrethed i formidlingen af ...atomernes og kernevåbnenes virkning i dansk dagspresse og populærkultur frem til slutningen af 1950erne. Med udgangspunkt i Sergei Moscovicis teori herom analyserer artiklen, hvordan videnskabelig viden transformeres til common sense forestillinger, og forankres i, hvad Moscovici kalder en hverdagslig forståelsesramme. Analysen viser, at der for det første sker et skifte fra kernefysisk til biologisk-medicinsk viden som det videnskabelige grundlag for den viden som formidles fra 1945 – 1963. For det andet ændres den geografiske lokation for, hvor problemer med radioaktivitet udspiller sig, fra Stillehavet til Danmark. Radioaktiviteten kommer nærmere og med målinger af forøget indhold af radioaktive isotoper i regnvandet, i mælken, i kornet på markerne og i sandet på stranden kryber frygten helt ind under huden på folk. Videnskabsfolk bidrog især fra midt 1950erne og frem aktivt til debatten om den radioaktive strålings farlighed. Artiklen argumenterer for, at videnskabsfolkenes deltagelse i debatten, og især den måde den videnskabelige viden formidledes i en bredere offentlighed, bidrager til at forklare, hvorfor debatten om faren ved atomerne i Danmark først kom i årene 1959-1962.
Is there a risk that Malaysia's racial mixture and its weighted political and economic structures could again explode into the kind of violence which, in 1969, was only just prevented from setting ...the whole country on fire? And has Singapore's success been bought at a price in civil liberties too high for its health in the future?.
Touching on the decade's biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties.
When first published in 1976, Godfrey Hodgson's America in Our Time won immediate recognition as a major interpretive study of the postwar era. Although the termliberal consensus, or its ...approximation, had received some previous expression, Hodgson was responsible for its entry into the lexicon of American history. Yet what he considered a substantive phenomenon would inevitably become a controversial paradigm as a massive outpouring of literature cited evidence of a significant conservative presence at the grassroots level from the 1930s to the 1960s. Here, leading scholars-including Hodgson himself-confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine how the consensus related to key policy areas, how it was viewed by different factions and groups, what its limitations were, and why it fell apart in the late 1960s. They find that although elite politicians from both parties did share certain principles that gave direction to postwar America, the nation still experienced major political, cultural, and ideological conflict Identifying the forces at work that gave rise to a newly confident conservatism promoted by corporate leaders, Sunbelt boosters, and religious activists, the contributors offer new insights into the era and diverging opinions on one of the most influential interpretations of mid-twentieth-century U.S. history.
The years between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s have usually been viewed as an era of political and social consensus made possible by widely diffused prosperity, creeping Americanization ...and fears of radical subversion, and a dominant culture challenged periodically by the claims of marginal groups. By exploring what were actually the mainstream ideologies and cultural practices of the period, the authors argue that the postwar consensus was itself a precarious cultural ideal that was characterized by internal tensions and, while containing elements of conservatism, reflected considerable diversity in the way in which citizenship identities were defined. Contributors include Denyse Baillargeon (Université de Montréal), P.E. Bryden (Mount Allison University), Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, Karine Hebert (Carleton University), Len Kuffert (Carleton University), and Peter S. McInnis (St Francis Xavier University).
Education-at-large Siao See, Teng; Cheow Thia, Chan; Huay Leng, Lee
2013., 20130628, 2013-06-28
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The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945-1965 and transcripts of ...forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former Chinese school students who shared about their social, cultural and political activities in complex but exciting times.Education-at-large broadens our understanding of Singapore's educational history in the transitional period between the end of the Second World War and the country's independence; examines the ways in which student activities and activism resonated with, and contributed to, the country's wider social, political and cultural life, as well as the decolonisation process; and stimulates debates about Chinese education and student activism in Singapore.
