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How to Survive the End of the Future: Preppers, Pathology and the Everyday Crisis of Insecurity
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers ( IF 3.445 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 , DOI: 10.1111/tran.12362
Kezia Barker 1
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Emergency preparedness is a distinctive feature of contemporary anticipatory politics, yet “preppers,” a sub‐culture who prepare to survive a range of possible crisis events through practices including stockpiling and survival skill development, are subject to media ridicule and academic dismissal. If the hoarder is the symbolic deviant figure of the consumer society, the prepper is that of the security society. Such constructions of prepper pathology, however, work to reinforce the neoliberal security state. By repositioning the prepper as an amplifier of conditions of the present, what emerges is an emblematic and anticipatory figure who troubles the cracks in the security state's governing logics, exposing its social differentiation and rehearsing the inevitability of its future failures. Drawing on qualitative research on UK prepping cultures, I define prepping across three constellations of imaginative‐material practices, concerning “value,” “temporalities,” and “crisis.” I argue that prepping exposes the contradictions of infrastructural weakening alongside the networked dependencies and restricted agency felt within late modernity, challenges the expert determination of what constitutes crisis, and unveils the myth of the universality of state security protection. Living with profound crisis attunement, preppers nevertheless recuperate pleasure in material potentiality and skilful practice, in thoughtful engagement with temporalities, and in the vitality of community and meaning formed in the times and spaces in, and around, crisis.

中文翻译:

如何在未来的终结中生存:准备者、病理学和日常的不安全危机

应急准备是当代预期政治的一个显着特征,但“准备者”是一种通过储备和生存技能发展等实践准备在一系列可能的危机事件中幸存下来的亚文化,却受到媒体的嘲笑和学术界的排斥。如果囤积者是消费社会的象征性变态人物,那么准备者就是安全社会的象征。然而,这种准备者病理学的构建有助于加强新自由主义的安全状态。通过将准备者重新定位为当前条件的放大器,出现的是一个象征性和预期性的人物,他解决了安全国家治理逻辑的裂缝,暴露了其社会分化,并预演了其未来失败的必然性。借鉴对英国准备文化的定性研究,我定义了三个富有想象力的材料实践的准备,涉及“价值”、“时间性”和“危机”。我认为,准备暴露了基础设施弱化与现代晚期网络依赖和受限代理的矛盾,挑战了专家对危机构成的判断,并揭开了国家安全保护普遍性的神话。生活在深刻的危机协调中,准备者仍然在物质潜力和熟练的实践中恢复快乐,在对时间的深思熟虑中,在社区的活力中,在危机中和周围的时间和空间中形成的意义。关于“价值”、“时间性”和“危机”。我认为,准备暴露了基础设施弱化与现代晚期网络依赖和受限代理的矛盾,挑战了专家对危机构成的判断,并揭开了国家安全保护普遍性的神话。生活在深刻的危机协调中,准备者仍然在物质潜力和熟练的实践中恢复快乐,在对时间的深思熟虑中,在社区的活力中,在危机中和周围的时间和空间中形成的意义。关于“价值”、“时间性”和“危机”。我认为,准备暴露了基础设施弱化与现代晚期网络依赖和受限代理的矛盾,挑战了专家对危机构成的判断,并揭开了国家安全保护普遍性的神话。生活在深刻的危机协调中,准备者仍然在物质潜力和熟练的实践中恢复快乐,在对时间的深思熟虑中,在社区的活力中,在危机中和周围的时间和空间中形成的意义。挑战专家对危机构成的判断,揭开国家安全保护普遍性的神话。生活在深刻的危机协调中,准备者仍然在物质潜力和熟练的实践中恢复快乐,在对时间的深思熟虑中,在危机中和周围的时间和空间中形成的社区活力和意义中。挑战专家对危机构成的判断,揭开国家安全保护普遍性的神话。生活在深刻的危机协调中,准备者仍然在物质潜力和熟练的实践中恢复快乐,在对时间的深思熟虑中,在危机中和周围的时间和空间中形成的社区活力和意义中。
更新日期:2019-12-23
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