Citizen Protectors

Author : Jennifer Carlson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199347575

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Citizen-Protectors by Jennifer Carlson Pdf

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a steady surge in pro-gun sentiment among Americans. In Citizen-Protectors, Jennifer Carlson offers a compelling portrait of gun carriers, shedding light on Americans' complex relationship with guns. Delving headlong into the world of guns, Carlson participated in firearms training classes, attending pro-gun events, and carried a firearm herself. Through these experiences, she explores the role guns play in the lives of Americans who carry them and shows how, against a backdrop of economic insecurity and social instability, gun carrying becomes a means of being a good citizen. A much-needed counterpoint to the rhetorical battles over gun control, Citizen-Protectors is a captivating and revealing look at gun culture in America, and a must-read for anyone with a stake in this heated debate.

Author : Jennifer Carlson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199347551

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Citizen-protectors by Jennifer Carlson Pdf

"In this in-depth and systematic look at gun carriers, Jennifer Carlson draws on her fieldwork attending guns shows and training courses, becoming an NRA certified instructor, and carrying a firearm to unpack the everyday politics of guns. Carlson argues that guns are taken up to address practical problems of policing and protection-in effect to manage social insecurities and suspicions surrounding state disinvestment and the efficacy of state institutions, especially law enforcement. In this context, guns carrying becomes a means of practicing good citizenship by producing social order amidst disorder. This understanding helps to clarify why Americans cling to their guns as both practical and symbolically charged tools of policing and protection, but it also sheds light on the NRA's hidden power as the primary organization that certifies Americans to carry guns. Rather than focus simply on how to handle a firearm responsibly, these training courses primarily cultivate the disposition, capacity, and desire to use guns in self-defense as well as teach the idea that carrying guns is a part of responsible citizenship"--

Author : Robert Mandel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786608093

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The Global Illusion of Citizen Protection by Robert Mandel Pdf

This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today.

Author : Thijs Jeursen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479816545

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The Vigilant Citizen by Thijs Jeursen Pdf

"In the context of the hyperviolent and racialized policing of cities across the US today, vigilant citizenship frames everyday policing as matters of personal blame and guilt-as problems of citizens"--

Author : John F. Cataldi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666923704

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Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South by John F. Cataldi Pdf

Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South: Conversations with a Damn Yankee finds that Lexington-Rockbridge, VA, community sentiments toward Southern symbols such as the Confederate Battle Flag and Robert E. Lee are not necessarily reducible to a racial divide. John F. Cataldi uses data to demonstrate that most black and white respondents navigate a social balance between the extremes of conservation and progress as a way to productively coexist and unify as a community rather than maintain an insular posture or cause division based solely on symbolic ideology. These findings challenge conventional sociological and media-provided paradigms and broaden the discussion of what tolerance and situational context mean for a large spectrum of community members who live in the milieu of Confederate symbols every day.

Author : Jennifer Carlson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691230399

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Merchants of the Right by Jennifer Carlson Pdf

"Gun sales have not just surged in the past two years-they have skyrocketed, breaking all-time records from March to July 2020. In this book, Jennifer Carlson examines the three dire crises in the United States in 2020-the pandemic, police murders and subsequent uprisings for racial justice, and the 2020 elections-to examine how Americans have turned to a well-worn tool of security in American life: the gun. While the notion that Americans would turn to guns for safety and security is hardly new, the utility of guns amidst the collective crises of 2020 is not so straight-forward. Carlson documents how people positioned at the frontlines of gun culture and conservative politics-namely, gun sellers-navigate the mismatch between guns as an esteemed tool of safety and security in the US context and the real-life crises that guns are deemed capable of solving, not least because many Americans believe they have no other option. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over 50 gun sellers across the United States and pro-gun media, as well as historical and legal accounts, Carlson explores the politics of gun rights in 2020 as a window into the broader challenges currently faced by American democracy. She begins with the National Rifle Association's transformation into a political organization in the second half of the 20th century and identifies three tools that were essential to that transformation: armed individualism, conspiracism, and partisanship. Focusing on each tool in subsequent chapters, she argues that gun owners, gun sellers, and gun rights advocates have used these tools to not just defend gun rights but also to understand and engage the political tensions they confront in their everyday lives. In doing so, she illuminates the underlying processes by which conservative Americans have deepened contempt for liberal democracy, and with what consequences"--

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1564 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3603137

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ombudsman
ISBN : UCAL:$B643883

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Administrative Ombudsman by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure Pdf

Author : Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer,Andrzej Burzyński
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Administrative remedies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043613210

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Parliamentary and Extra Administrative Forms of Protection of Citizens Rights by Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer,Andrzej Burzyński Pdf

Colloquium held Dec. 6-8, 1976 at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Author : John Ma
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691255484

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Polis by John Ma Pdf

A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it offered a means for collaboration among fellow city-states and social bargaining between a community and its elites—but at what cost? Polis proposes a panoramic account of the ancient Greek city-state, its diverse forms, and enduring characteristics over the span of a millennium. In this landmark book, John Ma provides a new history of the polis, charting its spread and development into a common denominator for hundreds of communities from the Black Sea to North Africa and from the Near East to Italy. He explores its remarkable achievements as a political form offering community, autonomy, prosperity, public goods, and spaces of social justice for its members. He also reminds us that behind the successes of civic ideology and institutions lie entanglements with domination, empire, and enslavement. Ma’s sweeping and multifaceted narrative draws widely on a rich store of historical evidence while weighing in on lively scholarly debates and offering new readings of Aristotle as the great theoretician of the polis. A monumental work of scholarship, Polis transforms our understanding of antiquity while challenging us to grapple with the moral legacy of an idea whose very success centered on the inclusion of some and the exclusion of others.

Author : Jonathan Obert,Andrew Poe,Austin Sarat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190842932

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The Lives of Guns by Jonathan Obert,Andrew Poe,Austin Sarat Pdf

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 presence of these objects shape civic ideology? What does it mean to develop and care for gun and gun accessories technology? What do guns mean to those who build them versus those who fight for-and against-them? What could happen when drone technology meets gun technology? In bringing together fresh perspectives from leading lawyers, political scientists, and historians, The Lives of Guns promises to move the gun debate forward by opening up new ways of thinking about these issues and broadening the scope of these perennial debates.

Author : Max-Planck-Institut fur Auslandisches Offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht (Heidelberg)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3452170039

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Judicial Protection Against the Executive by Max-Planck-Institut fur Auslandisches Offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht (Heidelberg) Pdf

Author : Georg Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : World history
ISBN : UIUC:30112076267126

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History of the World from the Creation of Man to the Present Day by Georg Weber Pdf

Author : Émile Erckmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600058158

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The story of a peasant, by mm. Erckmann-Chatrian.(Pt. 1, 2). by Émile Erckmann Pdf

Author : Emile Erckmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000573942

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The Story of a Peasant; (1789) Or, The Beginning of the Great French Revolution by Emile Erckmann Pdf