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oapen-20.500.12657-519552021-12-14T02:46:03Z Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe Cronqvist, Marie Farbøl, Rosanna Sylvest, Casper Survival Resilience Disaster planning Terrorism Nuclear conflict Memory studies Materiality Everyday experience Cold War NATO Twentieth century open access bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JW Warfare & defence bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical contextualization is essential in order to understand what is at stake in preparing, devising, and implementing forms of preparedness, protection, and security that are specifically targeted at societies and citizens. Applying the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to civil defence history, the chapters of this volume cover a range of new themes, from technology and materiality to media, memory, and everyday experience. The book underlines the social embeddedness of civil defence by detailing how it both prompted new forms of social interaction and reflected norms and visions of the ‘good society’ in an age where nuclear technology seemed to hold the key to both doom and salvation. 2021-12-13T18:55:45Z 2021-12-13T18:55:45Z 2022 book ONIX_20211213_9783030842819_31 9783030842819 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51955 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-84281-9.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-84281-9 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9 10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9df0dfc1-3b0c-457c-8bee-d1411f63187e 9783030842819 Palgrave Macmillan 250 Bern [grantnumber unknown] open access
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This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical contextualization is essential in order to understand what is at stake in preparing, devising, and implementing forms of preparedness, protection, and security that are specifically targeted at societies and citizens. Applying the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to civil defence history, the chapters of this volume cover a range of new themes, from technology and materiality to media, memory, and everyday experience. The book underlines the social embeddedness of civil defence by detailing how it both prompted new forms of social interaction and reflected norms and visions of the ‘good society’ in an age where nuclear technology seemed to hold the key to both doom and salvation.
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