When the (nuclear) winter came. Food imagination of prepper subculture

Journal Title: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies - Year 2015, Vol 8, Issue 2

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of food in survivalism. Based on a netnography of the French Survivalist Network (RSF), it aims to understand the value system developed by this culture obsessed with the end of the world.

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ATER Bertrand VIDAL| Université de Nîmes FRANCE

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ATER Bertrand VIDAL (2015). When the (nuclear) winter came. Food imagination of prepper subculture. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 8(2), 195-204. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-9200