Publication Date:
2023-11-16
Description:
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 moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community building. Beyond gun rights, restrictions, or the actual functions of firearms, the book demonstrates how the gun question itself becomes loaded with symbolic firepower, making or breaking assumptions about identities, behavior, and belief systems. Contributors include: Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Lotta Kähkönen, Mila Seppälä, and Juha A. Vuori.
Keywords:
activism
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America
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American
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American West
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behavior
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belief system
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belief systems
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campus carry
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class
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community
;
conflict
;
contemporary
;
cultural
;
culture
;
culture war
;
culture wars
;
debate
;
education
;
Europe
;
fetishism
;
firearms
;
firearm
;
firepower
;
frontier mythology
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gender
;
gun
;
guns
;
historical
;
history
;
identities
;
identity
;
imaginaries
;
imaginary
;
insecurity
;
legislation
;
Lone Star State
;
lore
;
memory
;
movement
;
movements
;
myth
;
North America
;
Paryz
;
Paryż
;
performative
;
political
;
politics
;
popular culture
;
power
;
race
;
relations
;
religion
;
restriction
;
rights
;
security
;
social power
;
Texas
;
USA
;
urban
;
youth
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies
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bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFE Violence in society
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPR Regional government::JPRB Regional government policies
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bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WS Sports & outdoor recreation::WSX Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting::WSXS Small firearms, guns & other equipment
Language:
English
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