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Cold War Museology
Cold War Museology is the first volume to bring together interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading practitioners and academics specialising in Cold War museology. Bringing the most recent historiography of the Cold War into conversation with museological theory and practice, chapters within the volume analyse the current condition of Cold War museology. By unpicking some of the unique challenges facing museum specialists dealing with the Cold War, this book takes a lead in developing the collection, display and interpretation of this history. The chapters question what makes a Cold War object; address the complexity of Cold War time; face up to questions of Cold War race...
Exteriorless Architecture
The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others. Generally considered as mediocre and banal examples that sit outside of pre-established disciplinary canons, these architectural episodes are extremely relevant. They are relevant not for their aesthetic or historic qualities but for what they represent – for the system of values these spaces embed. They express specific power relations, exacerbate issues of labor, and generate dramatic processes of subjectivity. Most importantly, these architectures, despite their formal and typological heterogenei...
How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas, invigorate national economies and the crisis-stricken world economy and thus stabilize capitalism. Together with an in-depth account of the world food crisis, this book analyses how this global scheme largely failed. It shows its diverse initiators, their reasoning and motives, its political breakthrough, the degrees to which it was implemented globally and nationally in the following decade...
Ice and Snow in the Cold War
The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”
Cryptic Concrete
Cryptic Concrete explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state. A scholarly work that suggests a reassessment of the history of geo- and bio-politics Attempts to understand the material architecture that was designed to protect and take life in nuclear war Zooms in on two types of structures - the nuclear bunker and the atomic missile silo Analyzes a broad range of sources through the lens of critical theory and argues for an appreciation of the two subterranean structures’ complementary nature
Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
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.
Nuclear France
This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces, technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs, uranium prospection, nuclear testing, its health effects and protests against it, as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is...
Trickbox of Memory
"Reach into this trickbox of memory and rummage around: you may find a tiny spaceship, or perhaps a signpost, a parade, a raised fist, an entire museum. The essays in Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts draw on literary criticism, post-qualitative inquiry, new materialism, and political activism to dismember and reanimate the field of memory studies. In the trickbox, concepts rub up against each other, pieces chip off, things leak, glitter gets everywhere. Things are damaged, their edges are ragged. Some show the potential for repair in the future. The chapters in this volume respond to the observation that in today's moment of political danger, "expected" pasts can easily be instrumentalized in the service of fascism. Trickbox of Memory interrupts the "expected" to throw history into disarray by focusing on the subtlety of how power relations are enacted and contested in reference to the past, assembling a transnational constellation of scholars and practitioners who offer new tricks for working critically with disorderly pasts."
Das Ende denken
Derzeit haben Endzeitszenarien Konjunktur. Wegen zunehmend instabiler Verhältnisse in der Politik befürchten einige das Ende der Demokratie. Die »Letzte Generation« warnt angesichts der drohenden Klimakatastrophe vor dem Ende der Menschheit. Und die ökologische Krise lässt sogar ein beispielloses Ende biologischer Arten befürchten. Doch das Nachdenken über das Ende ist nicht neu. Wie die Beiträge dieses interdisziplinär angelegten Bandes zeigen, setzt sich der Mensch seit jeher mit dem Ende von Dingen oder Zeiten auseinander, die ihm wichtig sind. Denn der Mensch ist das Wesen, welches das Ende denken kann. Er kann es fürchten wie den eigenen Tod oder das Ende einer guten Beziehung. Er kann es aber auch nur beschwören, um es zu vermeiden helfen, oder es festsetzen, um Epochen voneinander abzugrenzen. In jedem Fall macht sich der Mensch eine Vorstellung vom Ende und versucht, es gedanklich vorwegzunehmen oder im Nachhinein zu deuten, die Zeit bis dahin zu nutzen und vielleicht sogar das Ende zu einem Neuanfang umzudeuten.
Katastrophe als Beruf
Während des Kalten Krieges sah sich die westdeutsche ärzteschaft mit dem beispiellosen Bedrohungsszenario einer atomaren Massenvernichtung konfrontiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert Jochen Molitor die Denkweisen und Handlungsmuster medizinischer Experten in Vorbereitung auf den Ernstfall, wobei Militärärzte ebenso berücksichtigt werden wie Zivilisten, führende Kammerfunktionäre ebenso wie die ärztliche Friedensbewegung. Im Mittelpunkte der Darstellung steht die Genese der Katastrophenmedizin. Deren Entwicklung von der sanitätsdienstlichen Vorbereitung auf einen befürchteten Atomkrieg zur notfallmedizinischen Reaktion auf die neuartigen Schadensszenarien der "Risikogesellschaft" liefert nicht nur vielfache Erkenntnisse zum Wesen des Arztberufs, sondern auch zur Bedrohungs- und Angstgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
