Bunker
The optimism of the pessimistic
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https://doi.org/10.48006/2358-0097/V8N2.E8204Keywords:
bunker, abrigo, proteção, fortificação, esconderijoAbstract
This paper reflects on the different forms and uses of bunkers historically, and how each iteration of this type of space portrays values and social disputes of their time. Responding to the exercise proposedby sociologist Raymond Williams (1976) in his seminal book Keywords, this research revisits the word “bunker” and its various meanings. Originally, bunkers were built as shelter and protection. Bunker-types were widely spread during WWI as a military strategy, and these kinds of spaces continued to serve different uses over the years. Although traditionally known as insalubrious underground spaces, this article shows how bunkers evolved. Today these spaces are no longer necessarily buried or hidden, and serve a variety of functions, depending on context and historical moment.
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