"This book explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state."--Provided by publisher.
Cryptic Concrete explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state.
- A scholarly work that suggests a reassessment of the history of geo- and bio-politics
- Attempts to understand the material architecture that was designed to protect and take life in nuclear war
- Zooms in on two types of structures - the nuclear bunker and the atomic missile silo
- Analyzes a broad range of sources through the lens of critical theory and argues for an appreciation of the two subterranean structures’ complementary nature
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| 1 Of Blood and Soil |
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The Death of German Geopolitics |
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West Germany and the Bomb |
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Towards a Cold War Biopolitics |
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The Rise of German Geopolitics |
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Life and Death in the German Geopolitical Tradition |
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From Abstraction to Materialisation |
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| 3 Return to the Soil |
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The Rebirth of German Geopolitics |
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The Contours of a New German Geopolitics |
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| 4 Nuclear Living Space |
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Civil Defence and the Return of the Bunker |
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| 5 Spaces of Extermination |
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The Architecture of Missile Storage |
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Razor Wire and its Discontents |
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| 6 Enter the Void |
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A War Game and its Reception |
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The Death Drive of German Geopolitics |
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| 7 Conclusion |
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Ian Klinke is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University Oxford and a fellow of St John's College. His work covers German geopolitics, Cold War landscapes and the politics of European (dis)integration.
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