H Shapira
Biographic Data
| ID | 16885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Shapira |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapira |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6728-6419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How Attitudes about Guns Develop over Time
Existing scholarship usually presents people's attitudes about guns as fixed and fully formed. Rarely are such attitudes examined as the outcome of social processes. As a result, while we know a great deal about what people think about guns, we know very little about the development of these beliefs. In this paper, we use a combination of surveys and life history interviews with a national sample of college students between the ages of 18 and 24 …
Conspiracies are about identities not ideas
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
The Minutemen
Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork with the Minutemen militia, this paper explores the performative dimensions of patrolling the U.S. / Mexico border. While informed by xenophobic ideological commitments, the Minutemen’s patrols need to be understood in connection to the concrete set of identity performances they are organized around. Specifically, in patrolling the border, this group of mostly aging military veterans re-enacts a lo…
Waiting for José: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
Trends and Patterns of Concealed Handgun License Applications: A Multistate Analysis
Recent waves of legislation have made it much easier for gun owners to obtain a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) and thereby carry their guns in public except when explicitly prohibited. Because data are difficult to access, our understanding of who seeks and obtains such licenses remains limited. Using data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, this article fills this empirical gap by describing demographic trends and characterist…
Who Cares What They Think? Going About the Right the Wrong Way
Arlie Hochschild Interviewed by Harel Shapira
Harel Shapira interviews Arlie Hochschild about her recent book Strangers in Their Own Land. They discuss the contemporary right wing-who they are, what they believe, and how we can and should study and write about them
Calvin's Problem: Racial Identity and Gun Ownership
Calvin Mitchell is a gun-loving conservative black man who hates when people "play the race card." And yet as he tries to participate in the gun world, he is constantly confronted with racism. How is Calvin to maintain his love for guns and conservative beliefs, all the while experiencing exclusion from the gun community? In exploring Calvin's untenable position, this essay opens up the ideological matrix of gun ownership and shows that understan…
Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
Waiting for Jose: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen? Patriots? Racists? Vigilantes? Harel Shapira lived with the Minutemen and patrolled the border with them, seeking neither to condemn nor praise them, …
From the Nativist's Point of View: How Ethnography Can Enrich Our Understanding of Political Identity
Based on my participant observation of the border militia group known as the Minutemen, this article examines what motivates people to participate in social movements. Building on social movements' scholarship, I argue that participation cannot be reduced to the expression of the beliefs which group members hold. However, while previous scholarship has turned toward organizational dynamics and networks to move beyond the ideological foundations o…
The Border: Infrastructure of the Global
This essay explores the ways residents in southern Arizona are experiencing and responding to the militarization of the United States – Mexico border. By focusing on the local level, the essay examines an emergent border politics that focuses neither on immigrants nor the economy but on the actual construction of the border
Poiesis Means Making
Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands
Trends and Patterns of Concealed Handgun License Applications: A Multistate Analysis
Recent waves of legislation have made it much easier for gun owners to obtain a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) and thereby carry their guns in public except when explicitly prohibited. Because data are difficult to access, our understanding of who seeks and obtains such licenses remains limited. Using data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, this article fills this empirical gap by describing demographic trends and characterist…
Poiesis Means Making
The Border: Infrastructure of the Global
This essay explores the ways residents in southern Arizona are experiencing and responding to the militarization of the United States – Mexico border. By focusing on the local level, the essay examines an emergent border politics that focuses neither on immigrants nor the economy but on the actual construction of the border
Calvin's Problem: Racial Identity and Gun Ownership
Calvin Mitchell is a gun-loving conservative black man who hates when people "play the race card." And yet as he tries to participate in the gun world, he is constantly confronted with racism. How is Calvin to maintain his love for guns and conservative beliefs, all the while experiencing exclusion from the gun community? In exploring Calvin's untenable position, this essay opens up the ideological matrix of gun ownership and shows that understan…
Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
How Attitudes about Guns Develop over Time
Existing scholarship usually presents people's attitudes about guns as fixed and fully formed. Rarely are such attitudes examined as the outcome of social processes. As a result, while we know a great deal about what people think about guns, we know very little about the development of these beliefs. In this paper, we use a combination of surveys and life history interviews with a national sample of college students between the ages of 18 and 24 …
Who Cares What They Think? Going About the Right the Wrong Way
Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands
Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands
Waiting for Jose: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen? Patriots? Racists? Vigilantes? Harel Shapira lived with the Minutemen and patrolled the border with them, seeking neither to condemn nor praise them, …
From the Nativist's Point of View: How Ethnography Can Enrich Our Understanding of Political Identity
Based on my participant observation of the border militia group known as the Minutemen, this article examines what motivates people to participate in social movements. Building on social movements' scholarship, I argue that participation cannot be reduced to the expression of the beliefs which group members hold. However, while previous scholarship has turned toward organizational dynamics and networks to move beyond the ideological foundations o…
The Border: Infrastructure of the Global
This essay explores the ways residents in southern Arizona are experiencing and responding to the militarization of the United States – Mexico border. By focusing on the local level, the essay examines an emergent border politics that focuses neither on immigrants nor the economy but on the actual construction of the border
Poiesis Means Making
Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
Waiting for José: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
Trends and Patterns of Concealed Handgun License Applications: A Multistate Analysis
Recent waves of legislation have made it much easier for gun owners to obtain a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) and thereby carry their guns in public except when explicitly prohibited. Because data are difficult to access, our understanding of who seeks and obtains such licenses remains limited. Using data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, this article fills this empirical gap by describing demographic trends and characterist…
Who Cares What They Think? Going About the Right the Wrong Way
Arlie Hochschild Interviewed by Harel Shapira
Harel Shapira interviews Arlie Hochschild about her recent book Strangers in Their Own Land. They discuss the contemporary right wing-who they are, what they believe, and how we can and should study and write about them
Calvin's Problem: Racial Identity and Gun Ownership
Calvin Mitchell is a gun-loving conservative black man who hates when people "play the race card." And yet as he tries to participate in the gun world, he is constantly confronted with racism. How is Calvin to maintain his love for guns and conservative beliefs, all the while experiencing exclusion from the gun community? In exploring Calvin's untenable position, this essay opens up the ideological matrix of gun ownership and shows that understan…
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
The Minutemen
Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork with the Minutemen militia, this paper explores the performative dimensions of patrolling the U.S. / Mexico border. While informed by xenophobic ideological commitments, the Minutemen’s patrols need to be understood in connection to the concrete set of identity performances they are organized around. Specifically, in patrolling the border, this group of mostly aging military veterans re-enacts a lo…
Conspiracies are about identities not ideas
How Attitudes about Guns Develop over Time
Existing scholarship usually presents people's attitudes about guns as fixed and fully formed. Rarely are such attitudes examined as the outcome of social processes. As a result, while we know a great deal about what people think about guns, we know very little about the development of these beliefs. In this paper, we use a combination of surveys and life history interviews with a national sample of college students between the ages of 18 and 24 …
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