Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Bennett, Luke

Description

xi, 267 pages; 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.

Series Statement

Place, memory, affect

Uniform Title

Place, memory, affect.

Subjects

• Abandoned buildings
• Historic buildings
• Affect (Psychology) > Social aspects
• Landscape archaeology
• Totemism > Social aspects
• Memory > Social aspects
• Bunkers (Fortification)
• Cold War > Social aspects
• Military archaeology
• Material culture > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 17-8270

ISBN

• 9781783487332
• 178348733X

LCCN

2017016051

OCLC

967202345

Title

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

Publisher

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Place, memory, affect

Place, memory, affect.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bennett, Luke, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: In the ruins of the Cold War bunker London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2017 9781783487356

Research Call Number

JFE 17-8270