Bunker : building for the end times / Bradley Garrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrett, Bradley L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Survival--Psychology.

Survival.

Survivalism.

Fortification.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2020.

Summary:

Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears- from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now, an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus. The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us, in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The Dread Merchants: Selling Safe Space

II. Geological Deterrence: Prepping Like a State

III. Living with the Bomb: A Cultural History of Prepping

IV. Pipes in the Ground: Burying Secret Spaces

V. Texas Redoubt: Tribulation in Style

VI. Preps Down Under: Bugging Out of Cities

VII. Escape from California: Boltholes at the Bottom of the World

VIII. Sustainable Security: Thailand's Eco-Fortress

IX. Captain Paranoid: Fortitude Ranch

X. The Antibunker: Bloom Where You're Planted

XI. Community Nourishment: Utah's Mormon Citadel

XII. PrepperCon: The Business of Survival

XIII. Rolling Territory: The Mobile Bunker

XIV. Life in a Geoscraper: The Survival Condo

XV. The Concrete Cave: Vivos Indiana.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501188558

1501188550

OCLC:

1148082361