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Toward a sociology of the trace / [edited by] Herman Gray and Macarena Gomez-Barris, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture.
- Social integration.
- Group identity.
- Nationalism.
- Memory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using culture as an entry point, and informed by the work of contemporary social theorists, the essays in this volume identify and challenge sites where the representational dimension of social life produces national identity through scripts of belonging, or traces. The contributors utilize empirically based studies of social policy, political economy, and social institutions to offer a new way of looking at the creation of meaning, representation, and memory. They scrutinize subjects such as narratives in the U.S. coal industry's change from digging mines to removing mountaintops; war-related
- Contents:
- Toward a sociology of the trace / Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray
- The prisoner's curse / Avery F. Gordon
- A nation of families: the codification and (be)longings of heteropatriarchy / Tanya McNeill
- Culture, masculinity, and the time after race / Herman Gray
- Producing sacrificial subjects for the nation: Japan's war-related redress policy and the "endurance doctrine" / Akiko Naono
- Coal heritage/coal history: progress, tourism, and mountaintop removal / Rebecca R. Scott
- Ecoadventures in the American west: innocence, conflict, and nation making in emptied landscapes / Barbara A. Barnes
- Drinking the nation and making masculinity: tequila, Pancho Villa, and the U.S. media / Marie Sarita Gaytán
- Reinscribing memory through the other 9/11 / Macarena Gómez-Barris
- Between celebration and mourning: political violence in Thailand in the 1970's
- Sudarat Musikawong
- Afterword: traces in social worlds / Sarah Banet-Weiser.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-7512-0
- OCLC:
- 664279278
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