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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bennett, Luke (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]
Series:Place, memory, affect.
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.
Landscape archaeology.
Table of 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.