This chapter explores how the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries can be used to examine civil defence as remembered. In focus stand oral histories testifying to the entanglement of civil defence in everyday life. The chapter employs a historical ethnography approach, using interviews and questionnaires collected between 2006 and 2012 in Sweden and the UK. The analysis, which departs from the three themes of localities, temporalities and mediations, illustrates the value of a more ‘bottom-up’ approach and discusses how we may refine the sociotechnical imaginaries framework to incorporate at least some elements of the ‘fuzziness’ of everyday life. It shows how elements of everyday culture relate to processes of embedding, resistance and ex...
Inspired by the works of Michel Foucault and Erling Sandmo, this article explores contemporary disco...
Starting from the central importance of memory in contemporary societies, this book encourages a tra...
This article analyses the historical culture of the Swedish Social Democratic Worker’s Party (SAP) d...
This chapter explores how the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries can be used to examine civil def...
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civi...
Reflecting on the individual studies of civil defence during the Cold War provided in this volume, t...
In interviews with members of Britain’s Civil Defence Services, experiences of Cold War voluntarism ...
Contemporary liberal and democratic states have ‘securitized’ a growing number of issues by advancin...
Increased public participation is absolutely vital in the field of fortifications and defence herita...
In this paper I develop an idea of commemorative ‘dis(re)membering’ as a tool for a critical, non-es...
By looking back and reviewing our recent modern past, we may be able to foresee and shape a differen...
The article analyses reconciliatory practices on war remembrance that draw from the imaginary of the...
The Swedish civil defense during the Cold War Era was a well-developed and well-planned organization...
In 2002, Sweden finally stopped producing air raid shelters for its population after over sixty year...
The Second World War left considerable material remains in Finnish Lapland, ranging from remnants of...
Inspired by the works of Michel Foucault and Erling Sandmo, this article explores contemporary disco...
Starting from the central importance of memory in contemporary societies, this book encourages a tra...
This article analyses the historical culture of the Swedish Social Democratic Worker’s Party (SAP) d...
This chapter explores how the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries can be used to examine civil def...
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civi...
Reflecting on the individual studies of civil defence during the Cold War provided in this volume, t...
In interviews with members of Britain’s Civil Defence Services, experiences of Cold War voluntarism ...
Contemporary liberal and democratic states have ‘securitized’ a growing number of issues by advancin...
Increased public participation is absolutely vital in the field of fortifications and defence herita...
In this paper I develop an idea of commemorative ‘dis(re)membering’ as a tool for a critical, non-es...
By looking back and reviewing our recent modern past, we may be able to foresee and shape a differen...
The article analyses reconciliatory practices on war remembrance that draw from the imaginary of the...
The Swedish civil defense during the Cold War Era was a well-developed and well-planned organization...
In 2002, Sweden finally stopped producing air raid shelters for its population after over sixty year...
The Second World War left considerable material remains in Finnish Lapland, ranging from remnants of...
Inspired by the works of Michel Foucault and Erling Sandmo, this article explores contemporary disco...
Starting from the central importance of memory in contemporary societies, this book encourages a tra...
This article analyses the historical culture of the Swedish Social Democratic Worker’s Party (SAP) d...