Antagonisms and the Discursive Sedimentation of American Gun Culture

A New Framework

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2408852
AutoresAlexei Anisin (0000-0003-3348-1376)
Año2017
Volumen17
Número2
Páginas133-139
Fecha de publicación2017-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708616670078
OpenAlexW2528877001
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas10

This article offers a new critical viewpoint of American gun culture through the use of political discourse theory. I argue that the historical evolvement and position of guns in the United States has coincided alongside a process of discursive sedimentation. The latter has fostered a contradictory antagonistic relationship which hitherto, has not been properly accounted for by scholars and activists. Specifically, this antagonism is indicative of a binary relationship that exists between a notion of socio-political freedom and its discursively relational opposites, slavery, anarchy, and tyranny. Concepts taken from discourse theory are applied to examine this antagonistic relationship. This is followed by a proposal to incorporate nonviolence into debates on gun reform

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