In the ruins of the Cold War bunker : affect, materiality and meaning making

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Title

In the ruins of the Cold War bunker : affect, materiality and meaning making / edited by Luke Bennett.

ISBN

9781783487332

178348733X

Publication

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.

Physical Description

xi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Summary

"This edited collection investigates the ways in which the physical remains of now abandoned military and civil defence bunkers from the Cold War have become the totems and sites of memory"--Provided by publisher.

Other formats

Online version: In the ruins of the Cold War bunker London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2017

Format

Books

Language

English

Added to Catalog

August 18, 2017

Series

Place, memory, affect.

Place, memory, affect

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Introducing the bunker : ruins, hunters and motives

Approaching the bunker : exploring the Cold War through its ruins / Luke Bennett

Entering the bunker with Paul Virilio : the Atlantic wall, pure war and trauma / Luke Bennett

Part II. Looking at the bunker : representation, image and affect

Peripheral artefacts : drawing [out] the Cold War / Stephen Felmingham

Sublime concrete : the visceral materiality of the mythical Cold War bunker / Kathrine Sandys

Processional engagements : Sebaldian pilgrimages to Orford Ness / Louise K. Wilson

Part III. Embracing the bunker : identity, materiality and memory

Taurus Kommandoplass : a vicarious engagement with military architecture / Matthew Flintham

Bunker and cave counterpoint : exploring underground Cold War landscapes in Greenbrier County, West Virginia / Maria Alejandra Pérez

Recuperative materialities : the Kinmen Tunnel Music Festival / J.J. Zhang

Once upon a time in Ksamili : socialist and post-socialist biographies of mushroom-shaped bunkers in Albania / Emily Glass

Part IV. Dealing with the bunker : hunting, visiting and re-making

Popular historical geographies of the Cold War : hunting, recording and playing with small munitions bunkers in Germany / Gunnar Maus

"A nice day out?" : exploring heritage (and) tourism discourses at Cold War bunker sites in Britain / Inge Hermann

Preserving and managing York Cold War bunker : authenticity, curation and the visitor experience / Rachel Bowers & Kevon Boo : exploring and repurposing Arnhem's ruins / Arno Geesink

Part V. Conclusion

Presencing the bunker : past, present and future / Luke Bennett.

Subjects

Cold War > Social aspects.

Bunkers (Fortification)

Historic buildings.

Abandoned buildings.

Memory > Social aspects.

Totemism > Social aspects.

Material culture > Social aspects.

Affect (Psychology) > Social aspects.

Military archaeology.