Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness
“With its geographical focus on Western Europe and its application of the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries from science and technology studies, Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe breaks new ground.” – Christoph Laucht, Swansea University, UK "Too often, Cold War civil defence history...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: New paths in civil defence history- Marie Cronqvist, Rosanna Farbøl and Casper Sylvest
- 2. Order on their home fronts: Imagining war and social control in 1950s NATO- Iben Bjørnsson
- 3. The imagined disastrous: West German civil defence between war preparation and emergency management 1950–1990- Jochen Molitor
- 4. Normalising nuclear war: Narrative scenarios, imaginative geographies and sites of leisure in 1950s Britain- Jonathan Hogg
- 5. Embedding preparedness, assigning responsibility: The role of film in sociotechnical imaginaries of civil defence- Peter Bennesved and Casper Sylvest
- 6. ‘The world is her home’: The role of women volunteers in Dutch civil defence in the 1950s and 1960s - Dick van Lente
- 7. Ruins of resilience: Imaginaries and materiality imagineered and embedded in civil defence architecture- Rosanna Farbøl
- 8. Framing civil defence critique: Swiss physicians’ resistance to the Coordinated Medical Services in the 1980s- Sibylle Marti
- 9. Remembering desirable futures? Civil defence memories and everyday life in Sweden and the United Kingdom- Marie Cronqvist and Matthew Grant
- 10. Conclusion: Civil defence futures (re)imagined- Marie Cronqvist, Rosanna Farbøl and Casper Sylvest