Chapter ID: CBB837845239

Remembering Desirable Futures? Civil Defence Memories and Everyday Life in Sweden and the UK (2021)

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Grant, Matthew (Author)
Marie Cronqvist (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 233-245
Publication date: 2021
Language: English


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 extension of civil defence in Sweden, the UK and beyond.

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Authors & Contributors
Sylvest, Casper
Rosanna Farbøl
Marie Cronqvist
Adgemis, Philip
Bradley, John K.
Chorell, Torbjörn Gustafsson
Journals
History and Anthropology
Technology and Culture
Chemical Heritage
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Lychnos
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
Deutsches Museum
Springer Nature
Concepts
Sociotechnical imaginaries
Civil defense
Cold War
Cross-national comparison
Memory
Technology and society
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Denmark
Europe
France
Sweden
Germany
Institutions
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
Physicians for Social Responsibility
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