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Urban Doomsday Preppers (Anna Bounds)
In today’s episode of The Annex, we present a talk with Anna Bounds (CUNY Queens College) to discuss her book on urban doomsday preparation, Bracing for the Apocalypse: An Ethnographic Study of New York’s ‘Prepper” Subculture (2020, Routledge). Our talk took place in May, during New York’s darkest COVID19 days. We talk about the immediate impact of COVID19 in New York City, and how the prepper community prepared for such a day. Our discussion was recorded on May 5, 2020.
Photo Credits. By Original: United States Department of Defense (either the U.S. Army or the U.S. Navy)Derivative work: Victorrocha (talk) – Operation_Crossroads_Baker_(wide).jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6931019
Interrogating Ethnography
Today, The Annex discusses an exchange in Contexts between Northwestern law professor Steven Lubet and UC Berkeley sociologist Michael Burawoy on the need to fact-check ethnography and the legality of studying violent crimes in progress.
Read the pieces:
- “Accuracy in Ethnography: Narratives, Documents, and Circumstances” by Lubet.
- “Empricism and Its Fallacies” by Burawoy.
Margaret Hagerman is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. She wrote White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU Press). Twitter: @MaggieHagerman
Jean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. Jean wrote Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France( (University of California Press). Twitter: @jean23bean
Photo Credits
By Dosseman – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
