Finding Diefenbunker Canadian nationalism and Cold War memory
The text discusses the legacy of the Cold War in Canada by looking at Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s zDiefenbunkersy&#x٢٠١٤؛eleven nuclear fallout shelters constructed in secret in the late 1950s to protect the Canadian national and provincial governments from a nuclear strike. While many of these...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
2015.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39258695*spi |
| Sumario: | The text discusses the legacy of the Cold War in Canada by looking at Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s zDiefenbunkersy&#x٢٠١٤؛eleven nuclear fallout shelters constructed in secret in the late 1950s to protect the Canadian national and provincial governments from a nuclear strike. While many of these sites have fallen into disrepair or been sold off, one such site has recently been repurposed as zCanada's Cold War Museumy with the explicit purpose of fostering zinterest and critical understanding of the Cold War.y The text questions how the site, its museumological apparatus, and the community curation of various rooms in the museum, constructs a zCold Wary for use in Canadian memory; questions the validity of considering the Diefenbunker as a memory site, following Pierre Nora's seminal concept; and explores the role of fictions in the interactive exhibits that aim to engage Canadian youth—in particular—in the issues of nuclear war, emergency measures, and the role of civil defence. The museum and its displays are interrogated for their performance of and possibilities for inscription, re-inscription, and resignification of Canadian cultural memory. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas. |
| ISBN: | 9781771121293 |
