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The Lives of Guns by Jonathan Obert, Andrew Poe and Austin Sarat (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Lives of Guns about?

Guns have never been as prevalent in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns either highlight the gun as just a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended; eventually, whatever progress these debates foster in the public conversation tend to halt altogether once the old cliché, "guns don't kill people; people kill people" is trotted out. These gun control and gun violence discussions take the gun as passive object, ignoring the changing effects, and the very agency, that guns may deploy as politicized objects. What happens if we reset the conversation and admit that guns, and not the people behind them, kill people? The Lives of Guns offers a new and compelling way of thinking about the role of the gun in our social and political lives. In gathering ideas from law, science studies, sociology, and politics, each chapter turns the stale, standard gun conversations around by investigating the gun as an object with agency. In approaching guns from a technological perspective, down to the very science of how they are created and how they fire, The Lives of Guns takes up a number of questions, such as: How does the presen

Who reads The Lives of Guns?

Author

Jonathan Obert, Andrew Poe and Austin Sarat (eds.)

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190842932

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Social Science