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

Mediehistoria

University of Essex

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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.

Originalspråk	engelska
Titel på värdpublikation	Cold War civil defence in Western Europe
Undertitel på värdpublikation	Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness
Redaktörer	Marie Cronqvist, Casper Sylvest, Rosanna Farbøl
Förlag	Palgrave Macmillan
Kapitel	9
Sidor	209-231
ISBN (elektroniskt)	978-3-030-84281-9
ISBN (tryckt)	978-3-030-84280-2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9_9
Status	Published - 2021
Evenemang	New Directions in Civil Defence History - University of Southern Denmark, Institute for Public Health, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Danmark Varaktighet: 2019 aug. 28 → 2019 aug. 29

Konferens

Konferens	New Directions in Civil Defence History
Land/Territorium	Danmark
Ort	Copenhagen
Period	2019/08/28 → 2019/08/29

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

Historia
Medievetenskap
Etnologi

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10.1007/978-3-030-84281-9_9Licens: CC BY

2 Kapitel samlingsverk
1 Antologi (redaktör)

Civil defence in Western Europe during the Cold War: Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness
Cronqvist, M. (red.), Farbøl, R. (red.) & Sylvest, C. (red.), 2021, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
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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. (red.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, s. 233-245
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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. (red.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, s. 1-23
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1 Avslutade
1 Aktiva

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 → …
Projekt: Nätverk
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
Projekt: Forskning

1 Arrangerat konferens
1 Arrangerat workshop/ seminarium/ kurs
1 Inbjuden talare

Transnational Civil Defense History network conference 2022
Marie Cronqvist (organisatör) & Rosanna Farbøl (organisatör)
2022 maj 11 → 2022 maj 12
Aktivitet: Deltagit i eller arrangerat evenemang › Arrangerat workshop/ seminarium/ kurs
The Cold War in fuzzy memory: Civil defence localities, temporalities and mediations in Sweden and the UK
Marie Cronqvist (Huvudtalare)
2021 juli 2
Aktivitet: Föredrag eller presentation › Inbjuden talare
New Directions in Civil Defence History
Marie Cronqvist (organisatör), Casper Sylvest (organisatör) & Rosanna Farbøl (organisatör)
2019 aug. 28 → 2019 aug. 29
Aktivitet: Deltagit i eller arrangerat evenemang › Arrangerat konferens

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Cronqvist, M & Grant, M 2021, Remembering desirable futures? Civil defence memories and everyday life in Sweden and the United Kingdom. i M Cronqvist, C Sylvest & R Farbøl (red), Cold War civil defence in Western Europe: Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness. Palgrave Macmillan, s. 209-231, New Directions in Civil Defence History, Copenhagen, Danmark, 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. red. / Marie Cronqvist; Casper Sylvest; Rosanna Farbøl. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. s. 209-231.

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