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

Marie Cronqvist; Matthew Grant

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9_9

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

Marie Cronqvist, Matthew Grant

Media History

University of Essex

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

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cold War civil defence in Western Europe
Subtitle of host publication	Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness
Editors	Marie Cronqvist, Casper Sylvest, Rosanna Farbøl
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	9
Pages	209-231
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-84281-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-84280-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9_9
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	New Directions in Civil Defence History - University of Southern Denmark, Institute for Public Health, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 2019 Aug 28 → 2019 Aug 29

Conference

Conference	New Directions in Civil Defence History
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	2019/08/28 → 2019/08/29

Subject classification (UKÄ)

History
Media Studies
Ethnology

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10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9_9Licence: CC BY

2 Book chapter
1 Anthology (editor)

Civil defence in Western Europe during the Cold War: Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness
Cronqvist, M. (ed.), Farbøl, R. (ed.) & Sylvest, C. (ed.), 2021, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology (editor) › Research › peer-review

Open Access
Conclusion: Civil Defence Futures (Re)imagined
Cronqvist, M., Sylvest, C. & Farbøl, R., 2021, Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness. Cronqvist, M., Farbøl, R. & Sylvest, C. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 233-245
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Open Access
Introduction: New Paths in Civil Defence History
Cronqvist, M., Sylvest, C. & Farbøl, R., 2021, Cold War civil defence in Western Europe: Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness. Cronqvist, M., Sylvest, C. & Farbøl, R. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-23
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Open Access

1 Finished
1 Active

Transnational histories of civil defence
Cronqvist, M., Farbøl, R., Sylvest, C., Bennesved, P., Grant, M., Berger Ziauddin, S., Marti, S., van Lente, D. & Laucht, C.
2017/02/01 → …
Project: Network
Media knowledge and Cold War preparedness: Mass communication theories and media practices in the service of the Swedish psychological defence, 1953–1985
Cronqvist, M.
Swedish Research Council
2020/01/01 → 2022/12/31
Project: Research

1 Organisation of conference
1 Organisation of workshop/ seminar/ course
1 Invited talk

Transnational Civil Defense History network conference 2022
Marie Cronqvist (Organiser) & Rosanna Farbøl (Organiser)
2022 May 11 → 2022 May 12
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of workshop/ seminar/ course
The Cold War in fuzzy memory: Civil defence localities, temporalities and mediations in Sweden and the UK
Marie Cronqvist (Keynote/plenary speaker)
2021 Jul 2
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
New Directions in Civil Defence History
Marie Cronqvist (Organiser), Casper Sylvest (Organiser) & Rosanna Farbøl (Organiser)
2019 Aug 28 → 2019 Aug 29
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of conference

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Cronqvist, M & Grant, M 2021, Remembering desirable futures? Civil defence memories and everyday life in Sweden and the United Kingdom. in M Cronqvist, C Sylvest & R Farbøl (eds), Cold War civil defence in Western Europe: Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209-231, New Directions in Civil Defence History, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019/08/28. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9_9

Remembering desirable futures? Civil defence memories and everyday life in Sweden and the United Kingdom. / Cronqvist, Marie; Grant, Matthew.

Cold War civil defence in Western Europe: Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness. ed. / Marie Cronqvist; Casper Sylvest; Rosanna Farbøl. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 209-231.

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