Overview

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.

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Author:   Benita Heiskanen ,  Albion M. Butters ,  Pekka M. Kolehmainen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.584kg
ISBN:  

9789004514669

ISBN 10:   900451466
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   18 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Benita Heiskanen, Ph.D. (2004), University of Texas at Austin, is Professor of North American Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Her works include The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring (New York: Routledge, 2012). Albion M. Butters, Ph.D. (2006), Columbia University, is a Research Fellow at the John Morton Center for North American Studies at the University of Turku. His research interests include Cultural Studies and the History of Religion. Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Ph.D. (2021), University of Turku, is University Teacher at the John Morton Center for North American Studies. His dissertation in cultural history examines the use of rock as a political concept in the 1980s and 1990s U.S.

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