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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.
Firearms ownership --- Firearms owners --- Gun control --- Social aspects --- Control of guns --- Firearms control --- Handgun control --- Firearms --- Gun owners --- Owners of firearms --- Persons --- Gun ownership --- Ownership of firearms --- Government policy
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This book, based on field research in the West African country of The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by international efforts and how local actors interact with international organizations or opt not to do so. The book also shows how the question of who can have what kind of gun under what circumstances is an intrinsic question to modern societies across the world, but it is seldom one that is addressed in sub-Saharan Africa except in cases of post-conflict countries. Small arms control and gun control are often treated as separate efforts, with the former the domain of international actors such as the United Nations and the latter being of concern to the domestic politics of countries such as the United States. By focusing on a country that has never seen the outbreak of a civil war, the book is able to disentangle the complex roots of gun control in Africa, its origins in colonial era legislation, its reverberations across social life, and how it shapes contemporary understandings of groups ranging for security guards to hunters. Niklas Hultin is Assistant Professor in the Global Affairs Program at George Mason University, USA.
Firearms --- Firearms ownership. --- Gun control. --- Law and legislation. --- Control of guns --- Firearms control --- Gun control --- Handgun control --- Gun ownership --- Ownership of firearms --- Right to bear arms --- Right to keep arms --- Safety regulations --- Government policy --- Laws and regulations --- Law and legislation --- Political science. --- International relations. --- Security, International. --- Ethnology. --- Criminal behavior. --- Africa --- Governance and Government. --- International Relations Theory. --- International Security Studies. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Criminal Behavior. --- African Politics. --- Politics and government.
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