Preppers represent a sub-culture of Americans who prepare for the collapse of society, or “the end of the world as we know it,” via emergency preparedness and self-sufficiency. Securing access to land and the rights to access natural resources are the tenets of self-sufficiency. Preppers associate access to land, water, resources, and distance from the presumed danger of the urban core with the national myth of a white, settler-colonial rural idyll. Rural living is thus an ideal of self-sufficiency. Based on thematic narrative analysis of data derived from multi-method ethnographic research (participant observation, digital ethnography, and interviews [n = 22]), I examine the relationship between settler-colonialism, white hegemony, and environmental privilege in preppers' discourse about the rural. Preppers rely on racially based frameworks that align with hegemonic whiteness, color-blind racism, and settler-colonialism. Even as they deny the salience of structural racism, preppers make claims to superiority based on cultural capacities like individualism, meritocracy, rationality, and objectivity. They invoke these claims to justify individualized, defensive response to socio-environmental risk that reproduces white possession of rural lands. Racialized prepper discourse informs the environmental practices that preppers adopt, based on claims to superiority and cultural entitlement to land rooted in settler-colonial ethics.

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“他们将像一群蝗虫”：美国准备文化中的种族、农村和定居者殖民主义*

准备者代表了美国人的一种亚文化，他们通过应急准备和自给自足为社会崩溃或“我们所知的世界末日”做准备。确保获得土地和获得自然资源的权利是自给自足的原则。准备者将获得土地、水、资源以及远离城市核心假定危险的距离与白人定居者殖民乡村田园诗的国家神话联系起来。因此，农村生活是自给自足的理想。基于对来自多方法民族志研究（参与者观察、数字民族志和访谈 [ n = 22]），我研究了准备者关于农村的话语中的定居者殖民主义、白人霸权和环境特权之间的关系。预备者依赖于与霸权白人、色盲种族主义和定居者殖民主义相一致的基于种族的框架。即使他们否认结构性种族主义的显着性，准备者也声称基于个人主义、任人唯贤、理性和客观性等文化能力的优越性。他们援引这些主张来证明对复制白人对农村土地的社会环境风险的个性化、防御性反应是合理的。种族化的准备者话语告知准备者采用的环境实践，基于对植根于定居者-殖民伦理的土地的优越性和文化权利的主张。