David Larsson Heidenblad is an Associate Professor and a Deputy Director for the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) at the Department of History, Lund University. He takes a general interest in the post-war period and has written extensively on the emergence of modern environmentalism in Sweden and Scandinavia around 1970. A concluding monograph on the topic is forthcoming in 2021.
His current research focuses on the dramatic transformation of the Swedish savings and investment culture, from the 1970s onwards. In particular, he studies the popularisation of stocks and mutual funds and the circulation of practical financial knowledge. He runs a popular blog on academic writing (https://davidlarssonheidenblad.blogspot.com/) and is a member of Finish On Time, who helps doctoral students develop good working habits.
Key publications:
Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, Aspirations (Routledge, 2020)
Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge (Nordic Academic Press, 2020)
”Financial Knowledge: A Rich New Venture for Historians of Knowledge” in Forms of Knowledge (Nordic Academic Press, 2020)
”Mapping a New History of the Ecolocial Turn: The Circulation of Environmental Knowledge in Sweden 1967”, Environment and History 24:2 (2018)
Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge (Nordic Academic Press, 2018)
Link:
https://newhistoryofknowledge.com/https://davidlarssonheidenblad.blogspot.com/