03101nam 22006973 450 991051218760332120220207155337.03-030-84281-9(CKB)5100000000152504(MiAaPQ)EBC6827699(Au-PeEL)EBL6827699(OCoLC)1291317671(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74875(EXLCZ)99510000000015250420220207d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCold War Civil Defence in Western Europe Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and PreparednessBernSpringer Nature2022Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,2021.©2022.1 online resource (259 pages)3-030-84280-0 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.European historybicsscWarfare & defencebicsscSocial & cultural historybicsscHistory of engineering & technologybicsscHistorybicsscSurvivalResilienceDisaster planningTerrorismNuclear conflictMemory studiesMaterialityEveryday experienceCold WarNATOTwentieth centuryopen accessEuropean historyWarfare & defenceSocial & cultural historyHistory of engineering & technologyHistory363.35094363.35094Cronqvist Marie1076081Farbøl Rosanna1076082Sylvest Casper963514MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910512187603321Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe2586184UNINA