Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness

Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
1 Introduction: New Paths in Civil Defence History
	Historiography, Trends and Aims
	Sociotechnical Imaginaries: Introducing and Exploring a Concept
	Applying and Adjusting the Concept
	Outline of the Book
	References
2 Order on Their Home Fronts: Imagining War and Social Control in 1950s NATO
	Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Concepts of War
	Imagining War and Civil Defence in 1950s NATO
	Bringing in Science
	Control
	Conclusion
	References
3 The Imagined Disastrous: West German Civil Defence Between War Preparation and Emergency Management 1950–1990
	Disaster as Rhetoric, War as Reality: Early West German Civil Defence 1950–1968
	From the Sensationalist to the Pragmatic: Later West German Civil Defence
	The Emergence of All-Hazards Disaster Medicine in West Germany 1956–1989
	Conclusion
	References
4 Normalising Nuclear War: Narrative Scenarios, Imaginative Geographies and Sites of Leisure in 1950s Britain
	Civil Defence in the UK
	Historiography: Civil Defence and Sociotechnical Imaginaries
	‘Narrative Scenarios’ of Nuclear Attack: Normalising Imaginary War
	Civic Engagement and Sites of Leisure
	Imaginative Geographies
	Conclusion
	References
5 Embedding Preparedness, Assigning Responsibility: The Role of Film in Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Civil Defence
	Sociotechnical imaginaries and visual history: Civil defence films as practices of embedding
	Early films (c. 1949–1954)
	Later films (c. 1954–1965)
	Conclusion
	References
6 ‘The World is Her Home’: The Role of Women Volunteers in Dutch Civil Defence in the 1950s and 1960s
	Rise and Decline of the Bescherming Bevolking
	Dutch Women in the Cold War: Social Position, Ideals and Voluntary Work
	Women volunteers and the BB
	Conclusions
	References
7 Ruins of Resilience: Imaginaries and Materiality Imagineered and Embedded in Civil Defence Architecture
	Ruins and Catastrophe Imagineered
	Getting to Denmark
	Building the Perfect Ruins
	Performing and Taming Nuclear Catastrophe
	Conclusions
	References
8 Framing Civil Defence Critique: Swiss Physicians’ Resistance to the Coordinated Medical Services in the 1980s
	Mobilising the Nation to Save the ‘Swiss People’
	Practices of Resistance: Claiming That Individual Action Matters
	Civil Defence Critics: Between Public Enemies and Public Support
	Conclusion
	References
9 Remembering Desirable Futures? Civil Defence Memories and Everyday Life in Sweden and the UK
	Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Defence Memories
	Civil Defence Memories in Sweden and the UK
	Localities
	Temporalities
	Mediations
	Conclusion
	References
10 Conclusion: Civil Defence Futures (Re)imagined
	Theoretical Reflections
	Common Themes and New Insights
	Preparedness Redux
	References
Index