In the Ruins of the Cold War Bcb

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-communi

About the author

Luke Bennett is Reader in Space, Place & Law in the Department of the Natural and Built Environment at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Luke Bennett (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2017
• EAN: 9781783487332
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-733-2
• Series: Place, Memory, Affect; Place, Memory, Affect
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history, Human Geography, Architecture: public buildings, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General