{"id":4892,"date":"2019-08-08T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T08:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2021-10-12T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:17:03","slug":"forget-obamageddon-prepping-is-now-part-of-mainstream-american-politics-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2019\/08\/08\/forget-obamageddon-prepping-is-now-part-of-mainstream-american-politics-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget &#8216;Obamageddon&#8217;, &#8216;Prepping&#8217; is now part of mainstream American politics and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long considered an extreme reaction to fears of Armageddon and imminent nuclear disaster, \u2018preppers\u2019 in the US have traditionally been portrayed as motivated by extreme right-wing or apocalyptic views. New research from Dr Michael Mills challenges this view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/people\/1390\/mills-michael\">Dr Mills<\/a>, Lecturer in Criminology, interviewed preppers based in 18 states to examine their motivations for hoarding items.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the research in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/22971\/forget-obamageddon-prepping-is-now-part-of-mainstream-american-politics-and-culture\">University&#8217;s News Centre<\/a>. His paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-american-studies\/article\/obamageddon-fear-the-far-right-and-the-rise-of-doomsday-prepping-in-obamas-america\/BDF4879C45C6F86F4E2F9FBEBF35D55E\">Obamageddon: Fear, the Far Right, and the Rise of \u201cDoomsday\u201d Prepping in Obama\u2019s America<\/a>, has been published in the Journal of American Studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long considered an extreme reaction to fears of Armageddon and imminent nuclear disaster, \u2018preppers\u2019 in the US have traditionally been portrayed as motivated by extreme &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2019\/08\/08\/forget-obamageddon-prepping-is-now-part-of-mainstream-american-politics-and-culture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40401,"featured_media":4895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10482,124,70],"tags":[43783,10482,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}