The Peculiar Features of an Anti-utopian Representations of the Future in the Millenarian Communities (by an Example of "The Survivalists")

The present work is devoted to the study of the features of designing anti-utopian representations of the future of the «Survivalists». The problem is revealed through the identification of features of anti-utopian representations of the future, constructed in millenarian communities. The subject of the study is anti-utopian representations about the future, constructed in millenarian communities. The theoretical object of research is the millenarian communities formed in modern society, in the turn the empirical object is the members of the community of the "Survivivalists". The purpose is to identify key anti-utopian representations of the future, designed in millenarian communities. The modern millennarian communities await the apocalypse in its secular manifestation. And the community of "Survivalists" is a special case of millenarianism. The main goal of this community is to survive after the apocalypse. In this connection, within the community, the representations of the future after the apocalypse are constructed. To identify the features of constructing these representations, we correlated the scheme for constructing social representations of S. Moskovici with the formula of social construction by P. Bourdieu and on the basis of the derived scheme we analyzed the features of designing anti-utopian representations of the future. As part of the work, the author operationalized such concepts as "new religious movements", "millenarian communities", "anti-utopia", "representations of the future", "disastrous incident", showed the interrelation between concepts. Defined which key anti-utopian ideas about the future are constructed in millenarian communities and how.