Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City - Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place

This book offers a qualitative analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City and on the practices of the city's urban prepper subculture, exploring the lived experience of the pandemic in terms of class division and examining the sheltering-in-place practices and community resilience efforts of New York preppers.

List of contents

1. Preparing for Survival versus Trying to Survive 2. History of Contagions and Chaos in the City 3. Escape from New York: When the Rich Left the City 4. Setting Up: Prepper Closets 5. Settling In and Settling Down: Life During Lockdown 6. Fostering Resiliency: The New York City Prepper’s Network 7. Prepper Advice for Post-Pandemic New York 8. Resiliency and a Way Forward for the City

About the author

Anna Maria Bounds is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, USA.

Summary

This book offers a qualitative analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City and on the practices of the city’s urban prepper subculture, exploring the lived experience of the pandemic in terms of class division and examining the sheltering-in-place practices and community resilience efforts of New York preppers.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Maria Bounds, Anna Maria (Check Never Cashed and Unable Bounds, Anna Maria (Queens College Bounds, Bounds Anna Maria
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032509440
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250944-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Routledge Studies in Urban Sociology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; New York, New York City, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, History of the Americas, Human Geography, Urban communities