In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker

Contents

Figures and Table

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introducing the bunker: Ruins, hunters and motives

1 Approaching the Bunker: Exploring the Cold War through Its Ruins

2 Entering the Bunker with Paul Virilio: The Atlantic Wall, Pure War and Trauma

Part II: Looking at the bunker: Representation, image and affect

3 Peripheral Artefacts: Drawing [Out] the Cold War

4 Sublime Concrete: The Fantasy Bunker, Explored

5 Processual Engagements: Sebaldian Pilgrimages to Orford Ness

Part III: Embracing the bunker: Identity, materiality and memory

6 Torås Fort: A Speculative Study of War Architecture in the Landscape

7 Bunker and Cave Counterpoint: Exploring Underground Cold War Landscapes in Greenbrier County, West Virginia

8 Recuperative Materialities: The Kinmen Tunnel Music Festival

9 Once upon a Time in Ksamil: Communist and Post-Communist Biographies of Mushroom-Shaped Bunkers in Albania

Part IV: Dealing with the bunker: Hunting, Visiting and Re-making

10 Popular Historical Geographies of the Cold War: Hunting, Recording and Playing with Small Munitions Bunkers in Germany

11 ‘A Nice Day Out?’: Exploring Heritage (and) Tourism Discourses at Cold War Bunker Sites in Britain

12 Preserving and Managing York Cold War Bunker: Authenticity, Curation and the Visitor Experience

13 Atoombunker Arnhem: An Architect’s New Uses for Old Bunkers

Part V: Conclusion

14 Presencing the Bunker: Past, Present and Future

Index

Contributors