Doomsday preppers and the architecture of dread

Garrett, Bradley

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.03.014

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“…The acquisition of survival property and the attainment of a self-sufficient life largely seems motivated by fears of seeing modern institutions, such as the state (law) and market (food-supply chains), breaking down in times of political, social, and climatic collapse. Relatedly, in recent years, the so-called ‘prepper’ or ‘survivalist’ movements – the essence of which is learning how to survive in times of catastrophe – have become ‘mainstream’ (Campbell et al, 2019; Garrett, 2020b), with a significant increase in people preparing for surviving self-sufficiently in scarcity. These examples, we suggest, can be seen as first indications of a brutalized geo-social conflict, where a struggle for habitable territory and the fundamental material conditions of survival are beginning to be fought at a time of modern legitimation crisis.…”

Section: Brutalization Of Geo-social Conflictsmentioning

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The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts

Carleheden

Schultz

2022

Thesis Eleven

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Modern social orders are legitimized by the ideal of freedom. Most conceptions of this ideal are theorized against the backdrop of nature understood as governed by its own laws beyond the realm of the social. However, such an understanding of nature is now being challenged by the ‘Anthropocene’ hypothesis. This article investigates the consequences of this hypothesis for freedom as an ideal legitimizing social order. We begin by discussing the conception of legitimation, after which we examine three classical notions of freedom (developed by Hobbes, Kant, and Hegel), in light of the Anthropocene. Following our claim that these notions all have severe weaknesses in view of the Anthropocene, we argue that modern social orders are facing a new legitimation crisis. Such a crisis, we suggest, involves a ‘brutalization of social conflicts’, which under the conditions of the Anthropocene assumes the form of geo-social conflict.

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Section: Brutalization Of Geo-social Conflictsmentioning

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The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts

Carleheden

Schultz

2022

Thesis Eleven

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“…The intersection of prepper culture and the game’s narrative merits further consideration. Bradley Garrett (2020) maintains of prepper culture that “the bunkers being built by preppers might reflect atomisation but they are not a terminal architecture, they are a social prism through which to understand dialectical hope in dread” (p. 9). This attitude finds reflection in many of the non-Peggie residents of Hope County.…”

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Far Cry 5, American Right-Wing Terrorism, and Doomsday Prepper Culture

Green¹

2022

Games and Culture

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The article explores Far Cry 5’scommentary on the rise of the radical right, domestic terrorism, and extremism in America. The game's two primary modes for this narrative critique involve its use of Christian symbolism and its exploration of doomsday prepper culture. What emerges from this analysis is that Far Cry 5 provides a harrowing reckoning in the rise of extremist thought in this country and its ramifications, one that is a timely reflection of current American culture. In Far Cry 5, America becomes the next great empire poised to fall throughout the game and finally, in its tense final sequences, succumbs to nuclear annihilation.

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“…As such, geographical work on futures has been most visibly concerned with expert discourse and calculation and their relation to political power (see, for example, Amin, 2013), rather than on geographies of lived human experience. There are, however, important strands of social geography research on individual and collective human orientations to the future, including work on children's and young people's geographies (Kraftl, 2013;Naafs & Skelton, 2018;Pain et al, 2010), issues of socioecological transformation (Gibson et al, 2015;Rice et al, 2015), and the doomsday practices of 'preppers' (Barker, 2020;Garrett, 2021).…”

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Re‐engaging psychology for (more) human geographies of the future

Bunnell

Yeo

2022

Geography Compass

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Recent work in several fields of psychology has advanced understanding of how humans imaginatively construct, simulate and (pre‐)feel the future. These advances have not yet been substantively engaged in social and cultural geography. In this paper, we identify, review and begin to draw together scholarship in human geography and several subfields of psychology on the ways in which people imagine and navigate towards the future. The most influential existing work on the future in geography has concerned powerful institutional and discursive depictions of threatening times‐to‐come. In contrast, psychological and neuroscientific work on cognitive processes involved in prospection extends possibilities for a human geographical approach to the future considering how people relate to discursive imaginaries and spatial environments. Reinvigoration of the human geography‐psychology nexus can further critical understanding of the spatialities through which futures are imaginatively formed and felt by individuals, and are thereby brought into the realm of political and social possibility.

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Doomsday preppers and the architecture of dread

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Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts

The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts

Far Cry 5, American Right-Wing Terrorism, and Doomsday Prepper Culture

Re‐engaging psychology for (more) human geographies of the future

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