TY - BOOK ID - 96665778 TI - Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe : Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness. AU - Cronqvist, Marie. AU - Farbøl, Rosanna. AU - Sylvest, Casper. PY - 2022 SN - 3030842819 3030842800 PB - Bern Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - European history KW - Warfare & defence KW - Social & cultural history KW - History of engineering & technology KW - History KW - Survival KW - Resilience KW - Disaster planning KW - Terrorism KW - Nuclear conflict KW - Memory studies KW - Materiality KW - Everyday experience KW - Cold War KW - NATO KW - Twentieth century KW - open access UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:96665778 AB - 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. ER -