Bunker

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SKU: 9780141987552
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What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse

By Bradley Garrett

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In Bunker by Bradley Garrett, the author embarks on a fascinating exploration of the global movement of people preparing for the end of the world by building bunkers. Through interviews and visits to underground shelters, Garrett examines the psychological and philosophical implications of our increasing obsession with safety, security, and survival in turbulent times. The book delves into humanity's fundamental fears and the societal impacts of these preparations.
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You might like this book if you're intrigued by the psychological and philosophical aspects of survivalism. Exploring the minds of individuals who prepare for disasters, it offers an insightful journey into the motivations and fears driving this subculture. If you're curious about the nature of preparedness and human resilience, this book could appeal to you.

Bunker

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An astonishingly prescient journey through one of the fastest-growing phenomena of our age, by one of our most exciting young thinkers and urban explorers.

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.

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.

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Bradley Garrett's Bunker is acclaimed for its timely exploration of survivalism, framed as an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of paranoia and fear in society. The book is both philosophical and witty, featuring a colourful cast of characters ranging from doomsday preppers to disaster profiteers. Reviewers highlight its gripping narrative style, which combines elements of ethnography and geography, and its reflection on how the bunker craze sheds light on contemporary social conditions. With a timely relevance to current global events, readers find it both a necessary and engaging read.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141987552

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 August 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 268g

Pages: 368

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Arts & Culture Bradley Garrett Education & Reference Non-Fiction Penguin Books Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

Dr. Bradley Garrett is an American social and cultural geographer. He is the author of five books translated into four languages, over fifty journal articles and book chapters, and has written for The Atlantic, the Guardian, and GQ. His research has been featured on media outlets worldwide including the The Joe Rogan Experience, the BBC, and National Geographic. Dr. Garrett received his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, was a postdoctoral fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and served as a research fellow at the University of Sydney. He has been an invited speaker at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House (Australia), Chicago Ideas Week and Google Zeitgeist (USA), and at the Tate Modern and Barbican galleries (UK), amongst other places. He currently resides in Big Bear Lake, California.