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.

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