PART 1 Understanding the rise of prepping in the global city of New York
1 “Ready.Gov” versus “Ready without Gov”: Prepping for disaster
2 New York marks the spot: Living on the X
3 Popular entertainment: Preppers as characters and as consumers
PART 2 Prepping in New York: Going it alone or going together
4 “Bugging in”: Sheltering in place for the extremely wealthy and mere mortals
5 “Bugging out”: Strategic relocation and strategic packing
PART 3 Urban prepping and symbolic interaction
6 New York Prepper’s Network’s mission and organizational structure
7 Toughing it out over the weekend
8 Dodging a bullet
PART 4 Urban prepping as a new reflection of citizenship
9 Future directions for NYC prepping
Anna Maria Bounds is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, USA.
"America's frontier spirit is alive and well in the United States,
even in the center of its biggest metropolis. Anna Maria Bounds
breaks tired old stereotypes about Northeastern urbanites and their
politics, and brings to life the New Yorkers who have been scarred
by crisis, lost faith in government, and band together to prepare
for survival. It is exactly what you want from a great ethnography:
a vivid, engaging picture of a world that existed right in front of
us, yet somehow remained invisible to the collective imagination.
Essential reading for the sociology of politics, community,
culture, and the city." - Joseph Cohen, Founder of the
Award-Winning Sociocast"New Yorkers preparing for the worst, a
rapidly growing social phenomenon, is traced and tracked by this
terrific book profiling the "prepper" movement. Written with
novelistic skill, Dr. Bounds turns a sharp sociologists' lens to
what the rich, the poor, and the middle are doing: whether bugging
out, or bugging in, joining a group or going it alone, Bracing for
the Apocalypse takes you inside this important but seldom studied
area." - Andrew A. Beveridge, President and Cofounder of Social
Explorer"Anna Maria Bounds's account of the culture, work and
context of the New York Prepper subculture offers a fascinating,
often hilarious reversal of stereotypes about the tribe of doomsday
preppers in the city. As a participant ethnographer in the network,
as an urban sociologist, and as a New Yorker who has experienced
urban disaster herself, Bounds writes with equal measures of
expertise, curiosity, and solidarity. She connects the urban
phenomenon of doomsday prepping with the social origins of city
life as well as new narratives of normalized emergency, different
versions of the apocalypse, and varieties of zombies. This book
offers insight, transparency, and an apt sense of the will, the
vulnerability and the resilience of "all in" contemporary urban
life." - Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University
"America's frontier spirit is alive and well in the United States,
even in the center of its biggest metropolis. Anna Maria Bounds
breaks tired old stereotypes about Northeastern urbanites and their
politics, and brings to life the New Yorkers who have been scarred
by crisis, lost faith in government, and band together to prepare
for survival. It is exactly what you want from a great ethnography:
a vivid, engaging picture of a world that existed right in front of
us, yet somehow remained invisible to the collective imagination.
Essential reading for the sociology of politics, community,
culture, and the city." - Joseph Cohen, Founder of the
award-winning Sociocast"New Yorkers preparing for the worst, a
rapidly growing social phenomenon, is traced and tracked by this
terrific book profiling the 'prepper' movement. Written with
novelistic skill, Dr. Bounds turns a sharp sociologists' lens to
what the rich, the poor, and the middle are doing: whether bugging
out, or bugging in, joining a group or going it alone, Bracing for
the Apocalypse takes you inside this important but seldom studied
area." - Andrew A. Beveridge, President and Cofounder of Social
Explorer"Anna Maria Bounds's account of the culture, work and
context of the New York Prepper subculture offers a fascinating,
often hilarious reversal of stereotypes about the tribe of doomsday
preppers in the city. As a participant ethnographer in the network,
as an urban sociologist, and as a New Yorker who has experienced
urban disaster herself, Bounds writes with equal measures of
expertise, curiosity, and solidarity. She connects the urban
phenomenon of doomsday prepping with the social origins of city
life as well as new narratives of normalized emergency, different
versions of the apocalypse, and varieties of zombies. This book
offers insight, transparency, and an apt sense of the will, the
vulnerability and the resilience of 'all in' contemporary urban
life." - Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University
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