{"product_id":"9781526174048-after-the-end","title":"After the End","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCold War Culture and Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003eThrough sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work studies the enduring legacy of Cold War culture in current debates and concerns around risk, security, borders, environmental justice, inequality and apocalypse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter the End\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape in the global North in the 1960s and that spread globally into the twenty-first century. \u003ci\u003eAfter the End \u003c\/i\u003ereminds us not only that most of the world’s peoples have lived with or died from apocalyptic conditions for centuries, but that the Cold War imaginaries that grew from and fed those conditions, continue to survive as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41601515487329,"sku":"9781526174048","price":118.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38975135.jpg?v=1767946489","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526174048-after-the-end","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}