Rosanna Farbøl
Biographic Data
| ID | 5844150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosanna Farbøl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Farbøl |
| SIGNATURE | FARBØL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5186-4701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Battle for the Post-War Mind
This article examines Scandinavian debates about brainwashing and human automatons in the 1950s and 1960s, situating them within the intersecting contexts of the Cold War, post-war welfare-state formation and rapid technological change. It argues that, whereas US understandings of brainwashing were largely framed in terms of the liberal subject's loss of freedom under totalitarianism, Swedish and Danish debates reworked the concept through the id…
Mapping Cold War Civil Defense in Aarhus, Denmark
This paper addresses the overlooked spatial dimensions of civil defense infrastructure during the Cold War, focusing on Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city. While Cold War military facilities have received considerable attention, urban-scale civil defense systems have been largely neglected in archaeological research. This study bridges that gap by exploring the development and distribution of civilian shelters in Aarhus, managed by the local C…
Cold War conduct
Employing the Foucauldian term ‘conduct’, this article explores how social resilience and morale became a target of state intervention in Denmark during the Cold War. ‘Psychological defence’ was a Cold War phenomenon designed to bring an imagined future war into a space of control as well as a tool for the authorities’ exercise of power in case another world war became a reality. Advocating a methodological internationalism, the article analyses …
Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
His research concerns Swedish civil defence during the twentieth century, with
Prepare or Resist? Cold War Civil Defence and Imaginaries of Nuclear War in Britain and Denmark in the 1980s
The article explores how the global Cold War conflict was made sense of and situated in local political, cultural and physical landscapes and communities during the 1980s in Britain and Denmark. Using civil defence as a prism, the article employs a comparative approach to explore variations within and between countries of how local authorities prepared or resisted the prospect of nuclear war. The article finds that two main imaginaries emerged th…
Urban civil defence
During the Cold War, cities were seen as likely targets of modern total warfare and systems of civil defence were created to protect cities and their inhabitants. Yet existing civil defence histories have focused little on the specifically urban aspect, and urban historians likewise have paid civil defence little attention. Using Aarhus, Denmark, as a case-study, this article examines civil defence through planning, practices and materiality in a…
Commemoration of a cold war
This article brings together the fields of Cold War studies and memory studies. In Denmark, a remarkable institutionalisation of Cold War memory has taken place in the midst of a heated ideological battle over the past and whether to remember the Cold War as a “war”. Using Danish Cold War museums and heritage sites as case studies, this article sheds new light on the politics of history involved in Cold War commemoration. It suggests that the Col…
Prepare or Resist? Cold War Civil Defence and Imaginaries of Nuclear War in Britain and Denmark in the 1980s
The article explores how the global Cold War conflict was made sense of and situated in local political, cultural and physical landscapes and communities during the 1980s in Britain and Denmark. Using civil defence as a prism, the article employs a comparative approach to explore variations within and between countries of how local authorities prepared or resisted the prospect of nuclear war. The article finds that two main imaginaries emerged th…
Cold War conduct
Employing the Foucauldian term ‘conduct’, this article explores how social resilience and morale became a target of state intervention in Denmark during the Cold War. ‘Psychological defence’ was a Cold War phenomenon designed to bring an imagined future war into a space of control as well as a tool for the authorities’ exercise of power in case another world war became a reality. Advocating a methodological internationalism, the article analyses …
Commemoration of a cold war
This article brings together the fields of Cold War studies and memory studies. In Denmark, a remarkable institutionalisation of Cold War memory has taken place in the midst of a heated ideological battle over the past and whether to remember the Cold War as a “war”. Using Danish Cold War museums and heritage sites as case studies, this article sheds new light on the politics of history involved in Cold War commemoration. It suggests that the Col…
Urban civil defence
During the Cold War, cities were seen as likely targets of modern total warfare and systems of civil defence were created to protect cities and their inhabitants. Yet existing civil defence histories have focused little on the specifically urban aspect, and urban historians likewise have paid civil defence little attention. Using Aarhus, Denmark, as a case-study, this article examines civil defence through planning, practices and materiality in a…
Commemoration of a cold war
This article brings together the fields of Cold War studies and memory studies. In Denmark, a remarkable institutionalisation of Cold War memory has taken place in the midst of a heated ideological battle over the past and whether to remember the Cold War as a “war”. Using Danish Cold War museums and heritage sites as case studies, this article sheds new light on the politics of history involved in Cold War commemoration. It suggests that the Col…
Urban civil defence
During the Cold War, cities were seen as likely targets of modern total warfare and systems of civil defence were created to protect cities and their inhabitants. Yet existing civil defence histories have focused little on the specifically urban aspect, and urban historians likewise have paid civil defence little attention. Using Aarhus, Denmark, as a case-study, this article examines civil defence through planning, practices and materiality in a…
Prepare or Resist? Cold War Civil Defence and Imaginaries of Nuclear War in Britain and Denmark in the 1980s
The article explores how the global Cold War conflict was made sense of and situated in local political, cultural and physical landscapes and communities during the 1980s in Britain and Denmark. Using civil defence as a prism, the article employs a comparative approach to explore variations within and between countries of how local authorities prepared or resisted the prospect of nuclear war. The article finds that two main imaginaries emerged th…
Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
His research concerns Swedish civil defence during the twentieth century, with
Cold War conduct
Employing the Foucauldian term ‘conduct’, this article explores how social resilience and morale became a target of state intervention in Denmark during the Cold War. ‘Psychological defence’ was a Cold War phenomenon designed to bring an imagined future war into a space of control as well as a tool for the authorities’ exercise of power in case another world war became a reality. Advocating a methodological internationalism, the article analyses …
Mapping Cold War Civil Defense in Aarhus, Denmark
This paper addresses the overlooked spatial dimensions of civil defense infrastructure during the Cold War, focusing on Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city. While Cold War military facilities have received considerable attention, urban-scale civil defense systems have been largely neglected in archaeological research. This study bridges that gap by exploring the development and distribution of civilian shelters in Aarhus, managed by the local C…
A Battle for the Post-War Mind
This article examines Scandinavian debates about brainwashing and human automatons in the 1950s and 1960s, situating them within the intersecting contexts of the Cold War, post-war welfare-state formation and rapid technological change. It argues that, whereas US understandings of brainwashing were largely framed in terms of the liberal subject's loss of freedom under totalitarianism, Swedish and Danish debates reworked the concept through the id…
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