Person
Researcher
- Media History
- Department of Communication and Media
Contact information
E-mail rosanna.farbolkom.luse
Room SOL:A245
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 117, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am a historian of the 20th and 21st century. My principal research interests are Cold War studies, media history, architectural history and heritage and memory studies.
I received my PhD degree from Aarhus University in 2016. In my dissertation I examined how narratives of the Cold War have been used in public and political debates in the post-Cold War. The dissertation was published in 2017 and won the award of 'Historical Book of the Year'.
My postdoc project, funded by the Independent Research Council Denmark, at the University of Southern Denmark examined how the imaginary war materialised in civil defence planning, propaganda and architecture in the UK and Denmark, particularly in local and urban settings. As a part of postdoc, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Liverpool.
Since 2022, I am doing a research project on psychological defence and media preparedness in Sweden and Denmark, and I'm a member of DigitalHistory@Lund
Research
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Books (1)
Editorships (1)
Articles (7)
- Farbøl, R. (2022). Prepare or resist? : Cold War Civil Defence and Imaginaries of Nuclear War in Britain and Denmark in the 1980s. Journal of Contemporary History, 57, 136-158. SAGE Publications.
- Farbøl, R. (2021). Urban civil defence : Imagining, constructing and performing nuclear war in Aarhus. Urban History, 48, 701-723. Cambridge University Press.
- Bjørnsson, I., Farbøl, R. & Sylvest, C. (2020). Hvis krigen kommer : Forestillinger om fremtiden under den kolde krig. Kulturstudier, 11, 33-61. Dansk Historisk Fællesråd.
- Farbøl, R. (2020). Atomkrigens arkitektur : Velfærd og civilforsvar under den Kolde Krig. Temp – tidsskrift for historie, 11, 101-125. Nyt Selskab for Historie.
- Farbøl, R. (2015). Commemoration of a cold war : The politics of history and heritage at Cold War memory sites in Denmark. Cold War History, 15, 471-490. Routledge.
- Farbøl, R. (2012). Kunsten at lægge historien til rette : Anders Fogh Rasmussen og opgøret med den danske udenrigspolitiske tradition. Temp – tidsskrift for historie, 2, 65-90. Nyt Selskab for Historie.
- Farbøl, R. (2011). Irakkrigen og den historiske legitimering. Slagmark, 68-80. Århus Universitetsförlag.
Book chapters (7)
- Farbøl, R. (2022). Ruins of Resilience : Imaginaries and Materiality Imagineered and Embedded in Civil Defence Architecture. In Cronqvist, M., Farbøl, R. & Sylvest, C. (Eds.) Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe : Sociotechnical imaginaries of preparedness and survival (pp. 157-183). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Cronqvist, M., Sylvest, C. & Farbøl, R. (2021). Conclusion : Civil Defence Futures (Re)imagined. In Cronqvist, M., Farbøl, R. & Sylvest, C. (Eds.) Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe : Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness (pp. 233-245). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Cronqvist, M., Sylvest, C. & Farbøl, R. (2021). Introduction: New Paths in Civil Defence History. In Cronqvist, M., Sylvest, C. & Farbøl, R. (Eds.) Cold War civil defence in Western Europe : Sociotechnical imaginaries of survival and preparedness (pp. 1-23). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Farbøl, R. (2021). Visual Essay: Warfare or Welfare? : Civil Defence and Emergency Planning in Danish Urban Welfare Architecture. In Brooks, R., Dodge, M. & Hogg, J. (Eds.) Routledge Research in Historical Geography, Cold War Cities : Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965 (pp. 201-216). Routledge.
- Farbøl, R. (2018). I skyggen af Den Kolde Krig : Politiske og historiske fortællinger om Danmark under Den Kolde Krig. In Bjerrum Fossat, S., Glenthøj, R. & Kølle Martinsen, L. (Eds.) Konfliktzonen Danmark : Stridende fortællinger om nyere dansk historie (pp. 222-239). Gad.
- Farbøl, R. (2017). Commemorating a war that never came : The Cold War as counter-factual war memory. In Törnquist-Plewa, B. & Sindbæk Andersen, T. (Eds.) European Studies, The Twentieth Century in European Memory : Transcultural Mediation and Reception (pp. 149-169), 34. Brill.
- Farbøl, R. (2015). Framing the past, shaping the future : Political uses of the foreign policy tradition in contemporary Danish politics’. In Ingimundarson, V. & Magnusdottir, R. (Eds.) Aleksanteri Cold War Series, Nordic Cold War Cultures : Ideological Promotion, Public Reception, and East-West Interactions (pp. 89-206). Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
Researcher
- Media History
- Department of Communication and Media
Contact information
E-mail rosanna.farbolkom.luse
Room SOL:A245
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 117, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20