The Lives of Guns

Herausgeber: Obert, Jonathan; Sarat, Austin; Poe, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

By focusing on the technology of the gun, rather than the people who wield or defend them, The Lives of Guns explores guns as political actors in American culture, ultimately offering something new and different to a complex and emotion-laden debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780190842925
• ISBN-10: 019084292X
• Artikelnr.: 53304173

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Obert is Assistant Professor of Politics at Amherst College. Andrew Poe is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Amherst College. Austin Sarat is Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of more than 90 books

Inhaltsangabe

* The Lives of Guns: An Introduction
* Jonathan Obert, Andrew Poe, Austin Saratrat
* Section I: The Political Life of Guns
* Chapter I: Mobile Sovereigns: Agency Panic and Gun Ownership
* Elizabeth Anker
* Chapter II: Radical Printings: Future Gunsmithing and the Politics of
Self-Manufacturing Firearms
* Andrew Poe
* Chapter III: Counting Up AR-15s: The Subject of Assault Rifles and
the Assault Rifle as Subject
* Timothy Luke
* Section II: The Social Life of GunsChapter IV: The Thriving Life of
Racialized Weaponry: Violence and Sonic Capacities from the Drone to
the Gun
* Heather Hayes
* Chapter V: Dum-Dum Bullets: Constructing and Deconstructing 'The
Human'
* Joanna Bourke
* Chapter VI: The Death of the Unarmed Assailant: On Racial Fears,
Ambiguous Movement, and the Vulnerability of Armed Police
* Franklin Zimring
* Section II: The Private Life of GunsChapter VII: The First Rule of
Gunfighting is Have a Gun: Technologies of Concealed Carry in Gun
Culture 2.0
* David Yaname
* Chapter VIII: How to Use the Bathroom with a Gun and Other Techniques
of the Armed Body
* Harel Shapira