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Doomsday preppers and the architecture of dread
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Prepping is a practice of anticipating and adaptating to impending conditions of
calamity, ranging from low-level crises to extinction-level events. The 2020
COVID-19 pandemic, which preppers consider a 'mid-level' event, and which many of
them were well-prepared for, makes clear that scholarly attention to prepper's
motivations and methods is both timely and valuable. Drawing from a three-year
ethnographic research project with preppers, this paper traces the activity of a
single bunker builder who has constructed a technically sophisticated private
underground community. Supplemented by additional fieldwork, the paper argues
that the boltholes preppers are building in closed communities built to survive
the collapse of society, order, and even the environment itself, refract the
seemingly irresolvable problems we are failing to address as a species. In the
prepper ideology, faith in adaptation has supplanted hope of mitigation, making
contemporary bunkers more speculative than reactionary and more temporal than
spatial. The bunkers preppers build are an ark to cross through a likely (but
often unspecified) catastrophe; they are a chrysalis from which to be reborn -
potentially even into an improved milieu.
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