ISBN:
9780816655977
,
9780816655984
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 308 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Toward a Sociology of the Trace
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Culture
;
Social integration
;
Group identity
;
Nationalism
;
Memory
;
Culture
;
Group identity
;
Memory
;
Nationalism
;
Social integration
;
Electronic books
;
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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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Ecoadventures in the American West: Innocence, Conflict, and Nation Making in Emptied LandscapesPart 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;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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