The Haptic Space of Disaster

Linnell, Mikael

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“…Here, the scenario exercise has achieved a sense of the uncanny by, in Freud's (1919: 7) words 'effacing the distinction between imagination and reality ', creating uncertainty as to whether Chris is performing in 'the real world' or 'a purely fantastic one'. Scenario exercises are an established mode of making catastrophe an operable terrain within the everyday and familiar, used by security planners seeking to overcome the disconnect between future crisis and the motivation to act in the present (Linnell, 2019). Now the leader of an online prepping group with a public educative front and closed, invite-only group, Chris hosts bug-out weekends and designs scenarios with the aim of facilitating awakening experiences in others.…”

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Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives

Barker

2022

Environ Plan D

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Thoroughly saturated by ordinary crisis, routinized emergency and the normalization of apocalypticism, late-modern society is nevertheless depicted as sleep-walking into crisis; a further, overlapping crisis of the ‘real.’ This paper explores the potential of prepper awakening narratives – the moment preppers ‘wake up' to the reality of crisis – to contribute to explorations of detachment and denial in the Anthropocene. These narratives, part of the wider repertoire of prepper story-crafting, provide justification for the prepper’s transition to an anticipatory subjectivity, emotionally and sensually attuned to crisis and motivated to prepare. Extending existing conceptualizations of awakening, I argue that prepper awakenings are defined by the uncanny realization of distance from an ideal state of security. To illustrate, I consider narratives of bodily vulnerability, insecurity at home and abandonment in public places, which express shock at the failure of relationality implicit to the safety fictions of these spaces. In this reckoning with the ‘autonomous’ modern self the agential and aware prepper emerges, but this does not in itself lead to a renewed moment of politics or production of revolutionary consciousness. Instead, the horrifying real’ is recrafted as a vital space of self-reliance and resourcefulness, a place to reflect on endurance beyond this world-ending.

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Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives

Barker

2022

Environ Plan D

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“…It also plays an important role in the contemporary social life of China (Yan, 2018). In his paper, Mikael Linnell has discussed about the spatialization of future events, particularly on enactment as a response to uncertain futures (Linnell, 2019).…”

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Inscribed Space and Occupational Shift: An Anthropological Study from Saltgheri Village of Mousuni Island in South 24 Parganas of West Bengal

Mandal

Guha²

2021

The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal

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Inscribed space is solely a metaphor describing the relationship between humans and their physical or social environment. The present study is an empirical one, representing the inscribed space and its role in the occupational shift of a community dwelling at Saltgheri village in Mousuni Island in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal in India. The most revered firsthand anthropological fieldwork method has been used in the present study. The study shows how inscribed space shapes the social-cultural life of the studied community.

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Conceptual Frames: Risk and Intersectionality

Nygren

Olofsson

Öhman

2019

Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

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The Haptic Space of Disaster

Abstract: This is the accepted version of a paper published in Space and Culture. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives

Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives

Inscribed Space and Occupational Shift: An Anthropological Study from Saltgheri Village of Mousuni Island in South 24 Parganas of West Bengal

Conceptual Frames: Risk and Intersectionality

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