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Gun Rights Activists and the US Culture War Embodied Fantasies of the Ethical Warrior in Contemporary Gun Culture
By Joe Anderson
Copyright 2024
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
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Gun Rights Activists and the US Culture War is a political anthropology book which explores how firearms can become associated with processes of identity formation, as well as acting as symbols of national belonging and embodied safety.
In the years following Donald Trump’s election an increasingly polarised population is taking up arms against each other more often than ever before. Based on... Read more
Prologue: First Encounters; Introduction: An Anthropological Approach to US Gun Culture; Chapter. 1: The Myth of the Ethical Warrior; Chapter. 2: Gun Rights, Vulnerability Politics, and Gun Violence; Chapter. 3: “Gun Rights Are Civil Rights”; Chapter. 4: Fear, Loathing, and Defensive Shooting in Las Vegas; Chapter. 5: Do Guns or People Kill People?; Conclusion
Biography
Joe Anderson received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and is now a research fellow in the School of Health in Social Science at Edinburgh. His research has focused on the gun rights movement in the United States and the issue of suicide in Scotland.
