The Cold War in Scotland: Technology, Heritage and the British Warfare State

在欧洲，冷战像战争一样，但它从未变得炎热(Nehring，2013)。然而，它的记忆、遗产和遗产正在成为充满活力的研究领域(Greiner等人。2013年；Low和Joel 2014年)。对文本的分析已经开始将冷战视为一场“想象中的战争”，但这种方法不能轻易地应用于物质物品和遗产。因此，这个项目解决了两个问题：在冷战期间创造的非军事物体，或从未部署的军事技术，如何成为冷战物体？这种模糊的民事/军事二分法对博物馆的展览和参与有什么影响？该项目寻求通过使用NMS科学和技术以及苏格兰近现代历史收藏来解决这些问题。它将询问社会、技术和军事之间的关系的物质遗产，考虑从打字机到导弹的各种物品。因此，它将阐明Edgerton(1991)所称的“自由军国主义”对遗产的影响，即为军事目的动员民间资源。

In Europe, the Cold War was 'war-like', but it never turned hot (Nehring, 2013). Its memories, heritage, and legacies are nevertheless emerging as vibrant fields of research (Greiner et al. 2013; Low and Joel 2014). Analyses of texts have begun to see the Cold War as an 'imaginary war', but such approaches cannot readily be applied to material objects and heritage. This project therefore addresses two issues: how does a non-military object created during the period of the Cold War, or military technology never deployed, become a Cold War object? And what are the implications of this blurred civil/military dichotomy for museum exhibitions and engagement? The project seeks to address these issues by using NMS science and technology and Scottish modern and contemporary history collections. It will interrogate the material legacies of the relationship between society, technology, and the military, considering objects ranging from typewriters to missiles. It will thereby illuminate the impact on heritage of what Edgerton (1991) has called 'liberal militarism', namely, the mobilisation of civilian resources for military ends.