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Remembering desirable futures? : Civil defence memories and everyday life in Sweden and the United Kingdom

Cronqvist, Marie LU orcid and Grant, Matthew (2021) New Directions in Civil Defence History p.209-231
Abstract
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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Cold War civil defence in Western Europe : Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness - Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness
editor
Cronqvist, Marie ; Sylvest, Casper and Farbøl, Rosanna
pages
209 - 231
publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
conference name
New Directions in Civil Defence History
conference location
Copenhagen, Denmark
conference dates
2019-08-28 - 2019-08-29
external identifiers
  • scopus:85153814397
ISBN
978-3-030-84281-9
978-3-030-84280-2
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9_9
project
Media knowledge and Cold War preparedness: Mass communication theories and media practices in the service of the Swedish psychological defence, 1953–1985
Transnational histories of civil defence
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English
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  author       = {{Cronqvist, Marie and Grant, Matthew}},
  booktitle    = {{Cold War civil defence in Western Europe : Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness}},
  editor       = {{Cronqvist, Marie and Sylvest, Casper and Farbøl, Rosanna}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-030-84281-9}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{209--231}},
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  title        = {{Remembering desirable futures? : Civil defence memories and everyday life in Sweden and the United Kingdom}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9_9}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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