By Luke Bennett

ISBN-10: 178348733X

ISBN-13: 9781783487332

During the chilly battle army and civil defence bunkers have been an evocative materialisation of lethal army stand-off. They have been additionally an emblem of a deeply affective, pervasive anxiousness in regards to the prospect of world-destroying nuclear conflict. yet following the surprising fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 those websites have been rapidly deserted, and uncovered to either fabric and semantic ruination.

This quantity investigates the makes use of and meanings now projected onto those seeming clean, derelict areas. It explores how engagements with bunker ruins offer fertile flooring for the research of improvised which means making, place-attachment, pastime practices, social materiality and trauma stories. With its commentators ranging around the arts and arts and the social sciences, this multi-disciplinary assortment units a priority with the phenomenological features of those locations as modern ruins – and in their unusual affective affordances – along scholarship interpreting how those locations include, and/or another way connect to their chilly battle originations and function either materially and during reminiscence and trauma.

Each contribution reflexively considers the method of attractive with those areas – and even if through the archive or direct sensory immersion. In doing so the booklet broadens the bunker’s modern signification and contributes to theoretically knowledgeable research of ruination, position attachment, which means making, and fabric tradition.

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