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Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Bern: Springer Nature; Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- Survival
Resilience
Disaster planning
Terrorism
Nuclear conflict
Memory studies
Materiality
Everyday experience
Cold War
NATO
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
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-3-030-84281-9
3-030-84281-9 - ISBNs :
- 9783030842819 and 3030842819
- Database :
- OAPEN Library
- Notes :
- ONIX_20211213_9783030842819_31, , https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-84281-9
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- edsoap.20.500.12657.51955
- Document Type :
- book
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9