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- W4200527281 abstract "Environmental tipping points, political instability, dwindling primary resources, and global capitalist growth economies furnish myriad imagined apocalyptic futures. While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other supra-governmental bodies focus on developing systems of resilience and adaptation for vulnerable populations, a geographically disparate group of people are mobilizing as “preppers”. This chapter focuses on prepping as a particular response to the uncertainty of our species’ survival. Drawing on a range of theoretical traditions and empirical observations, we critically examine the various discourses and practices that preppers deploy in preparing themselves and loved ones for what they believe is the certainty of a survivalist future. Far from the experiences of millions of people who are forced into relentless adaptation due to unremitting poverty, inequality and global changes in climate, preppers largely plan for their imagined future by accumulating survivalist skills and things. That is, what most characterizes preppers is their mass consumption: preppers spend many thousands of dollars stockpiling resources like food, water, and weaponry. WalMart, Costco, and other mainstream consumer havens now offer emergency food storage “kits”, as publishing and distributing companies sell prepping guides for adults and children alike. Not only, then, do they eschew initiatives that seek to prevent an imagined future apocalypse, but as we will show, preppers influence the very conditions that they then say they are forced to respond to as they intensify the hegemony of over-consumption. As such, we argue that the phenomenon of prepping—significantly mainstreamed by the COVID-19 pandemic—is a contemporary reiteration of Western consumer/trashing culture, which feeds the global neoliberal capitalist system responsible for the very apocalyptic conditions to which preppers believe they are responding." @default.
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- W4200527281 title "Prepping for the [insert here] apocalypse and wasting the future" @default.
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