Toward a Sociology of the Trace.
Title:
Toward a Sociology of the Trace.
Author:
Gray, Herman.
ISBN:
9780816675128
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (325 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Prologue: Traces in the Social World -- 1. Toward a Sociology of the Trace -- Part I. Cartographies of Belonging -- 2. The Prisoner's Curse -- 3. A Nation of Families: The Codification and (Be)longings of Heteropatriarchy -- 4. Culture, Masculinity, and the Time after Race -- 5. Producing Sacrificial Subjects for the Nation: Japan's War-Related Redress Policy and the "Endurance Doctrine" -- Part II. Spectacles of Consumption -- 6. Coal Heritage/Coal History: Progress, Tourism, and Mountaintop Removal -- 7. Ecoadventures in the American West: Innocence, Conflict, and Nation Making in Emptied Landscapes -- Part III. Managing and Reconciling Memory -- 8. Drinking the Nation and Making Masculinity: Tequila, Pancho Villa, and the U.S. Media -- 9. Reinscribing Memory through the Other 9/11 -- 10. Between Celebration and Mourning: Political Violence in Thailand in the 1970s -- Afterword: Traces in Social Worlds -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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 redress policies in post-World War II Japan; views of masculinity linked to tequila, Pancho Villa, and the Mexican Revolution; and the politics of subjectivity in 1970s political violence in Thailand. Contributors: Sarah Banet-Weiser, U of Southern California; Barbara A. Barnes, U of California, Berkeley; Marie Sarita Gaytán; Avery F. Gordon, U of California, Santa Barbara; Tanya McNeill, U of California, Santa Cruz; Sudarat Musikawong, Willamette U; Akiko Naono, U of Kyushu; Rebecca R. Scott, U of Missouri.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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