During the Cold War military and civil defence bunkers were an evocative materialization of the deadly nuclear stand-off. In its aftermath many of these sites were abandoned and left to ruin. How does the origin of these concrete spaces shape their identity? What use are the ruins of these bunkers now? This volume explores the effects of and responses to this declassification via abandonment . It explores how the bunker becomes a fertile ground for the study of meaning-making, place-attachment, hobby practices, social materiality and trauma studies. It explores the bunker as a heterotopic...