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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.
List of contents
Contents / List of figures and tables / Acknowledgements / Part I: Introducing the bunker: Ruins, hunters and motives / 1. Approaching the bunker: Exploring the Cold War through its ruins, Luke Bennett / 2. 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 / 3. Peripheral artefacts: Drawing [out] the Cold War, Stephen Felmingham / 4. Sublime concrete: The fantasy bunker, explored, Kathrine Sandys / 5. Processual engagements: Sebaldian pilgrimages to Orford Ness, Louise K. Wilson / Part III: Embracing the bunker: Identity, materiality and memory 6. Torås fort: A speculative study of war architecture in the landscape, Matthew Flintham / 7. Bunker and cave counterpoint: Exploring underground Cold War landscapes in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, María Alejandra Pérez / 8. Recuperative materialities: The Kinmen Tunnel Music Festival, J.J. Zhang / 9. Once upon a time in Ksamil: Communist and post-communist biographies of mushroom-shaped bunkers in Albania, Emily Glass / Part IV: Dealing with the bunker: hunting, visiting and re-making / 10. Popular historical geographies of the Cold War: Hunting, recording and playing with small munitions bunkers in Germany, Gunnar Maus / 11. 'A nice day out?': Exploring heritage (and) tourism discourses at Cold War bunker sites in Britain, Inge Hermann / 12. Preserving and managing York Cold War bunker: Authenticity, curation and the visitor experience, Rachael Bowers & Kevin Booth / 13. Atoombunker Arnhem: An architect's new uses for old bunkers, Arno Geesink / Part V: Conclusion / 14. Presencing the bunker: Past, present and future, Luke Bennett / Index / Contributors /
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Edited by Luke Bennett
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.
