This essay introduces environmental historians to a new approach inspired by the burgeoning field of Wissensgeschichte; that is, the study of societal circulation of knowledge. It is argued that this new method can help us to better map out and analyse the emergence of modern environmentalism in society at large. To demonstrate the practical implications of the argument the essay is centred on an empirical investigation of a formative moment in Swedish environmental history: the eventful autumn of 1967. The study makes evident that during this period environmental issues began to be publicly regarded as a pressing global question of survival and that this development was intrinsically linked with the production of a certain kind of future-oriented expertise. The empirical findings of the essay shows that by shifting our analytical attention towards the societal circulation of knowledge we can gain new insights into the public emergence of environmentalism. It is argued that this line of research can provide a new basis for environmental historians seeking to write a new and enlarged history of the ecological turn. (Less)

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描绘生态转向的新历史：1967 年瑞典环境知识的流通

这篇文章向环境历史学家介绍了一种受 Wissensgeschichte 新兴领域启发的新方法；也就是说，研究知识的社会循环。有人认为，这种新方法可以帮助我们更好地描绘和分析现代环保主义在整个社会中的出现。为了证明该论点的实际意义，本文集中对瑞典环境史中一个形成性时刻的实证调查：1967 年多事之秋。该研究表明，在此期间，环境问题开始被公开视为紧迫的全球性问题。生存的问题，并且这种发展与某种面向未来的专业知识的产生有着内在的联系。本文的实证结果表明，通过将我们的分析注意力转移到知识的社会循环上，我们可以获得对公众出现的环保主义的新见解。有人认为，这一研究方向可以为环境历史学家提供新的基础，以撰写新的、扩大的生态转向历史。（较少的）