Up in Arms Gun Imaginaries in Texas

Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical mome...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Butters, Albion M., editor (editor), Kolehmainen, Pekka M., editor, Heiskanen, Benita, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2022]
Edición:First edition
Colección:European perspectives series ; Volume 1.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009758530106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Loaded with the Past, Coloring the Present: The Power of Gun Imaginaries / Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, and Pekka M. Kolehmainen
  • 2 We are Texas Because of Guns: Firearms in Texan and “American” Imaginaries / Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
  • 3 The Founding Fathers in the Temporal Imaginaries of Texas Gun Politics / Pekka M. Kolehmainen
  • 4 “I Forgive Him, Yes”: Gendered Trauma Narratives of the Texas Tower Shooting / Lotta Kähkönen
  • 5 Triggered: The Imaginary Realities of Campus Carry in Texas / Benita Heiskanen
  • 6 Radical Political Imagination and Generational Utopias: Gun Control as a Site of Youth Activism / Mila Seppälä
  • 7 Pro-Campus Carry Video Imaginaries at The University of Texas Austin / Juha A. Vuori
  • 8 Firearms Fetishism in Texas: Entanglements of Gun Imaginaries and Belief / Albion M. Butters
  • 9 Imaging Texas Gun Culture: A Photo Essay / Albion M. Butters, Benita Heiskanen, and Lotta Kähkönen
  • 10 The Explanatory, Social, and Performative Power of Gun Imaginaries / Benita Heiskanen and Pekka M. Kolehmainen
  • Index.