Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe : : Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021. ©2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (259 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
- Preface
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction: New Paths in Civil Defence History
- Historiography, Trends and Aims
- Sociotechnical Imaginaries: Introducing and Exploring a Concept
- Applying and Adjusting the Concept
- Outline of the Book
- References
- 2 Order on Their Home Fronts: Imagining War and Social Control in 1950s NATO
- Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Concepts of War
- Imagining War and Civil Defence in 1950s NATO
- Bringing in Science
- Control
- Conclusion
- References
- 3 The Imagined Disastrous: West German Civil Defence Between War Preparation and Emergency Management 1950-1990
- Disaster as Rhetoric, War as Reality: Early West German Civil Defence 1950-1968
- From the Sensationalist to the Pragmatic: Later West German Civil Defence
- The Emergence of All-Hazards Disaster Medicine in West Germany 1956-1989
- Conclusion
- References
- 4 Normalising Nuclear War: Narrative Scenarios, Imaginative Geographies and Sites of Leisure in 1950s Britain
- Civil Defence in the UK
- Historiography: Civil Defence and Sociotechnical Imaginaries
- 'Narrative Scenarios' of Nuclear Attack: Normalising Imaginary War
- Civic Engagement and Sites of Leisure
- Imaginative Geographies
- Conclusion
- References
- 5 Embedding Preparedness, Assigning Responsibility: The Role of Film in Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Civil Defence
- Sociotechnical imaginaries and visual history: Civil defence films as practices of embedding
- Early films (c. 1949-1954)
- Later films (c. 1954-1965)
- Conclusion
- References
- 6 'The World is Her Home': The Role of Women Volunteers in Dutch Civil Defence in the 1950s and 1960s
- Rise and Decline of the Bescherming Bevolking
- Dutch Women in the Cold War: Social Position, Ideals and Voluntary Work.
- Women volunteers and the BB
- Conclusions
- References
- 7 Ruins of Resilience: Imaginaries and Materiality Imagineered and Embedded in Civil Defence Architecture
- Ruins and Catastrophe Imagineered
- Getting to Denmark
- Building the Perfect Ruins
- Performing and Taming Nuclear Catastrophe
- Conclusions
- References
- 8 Framing Civil Defence Critique: Swiss Physicians' Resistance to the Coordinated Medical Services in the 1980s
- Mobilising the Nation to Save the 'Swiss People'
- Practices of Resistance: Claiming That Individual Action Matters
- Civil Defence Critics: Between Public Enemies and Public Support
- Conclusion
- References
- 9 Remembering Desirable Futures? Civil Defence Memories and Everyday Life in Sweden and the UK
- Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Defence Memories
- Civil Defence Memories in Sweden and the UK
- Localities
- Temporalities
- Mediations
- Conclusion
- References
- 10 Conclusion: Civil Defence Futures (Re)imagined
- Theoretical Reflections
- Common Themes and New Insights
- Preparedness Redux
- References
- Index.