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Toward a Sociology of the Trace
. Ed(S): Gray, Herman; Gomez-Barris, Macarena
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Paperback. Editor(s): Gray, Herman; Gomez-Barris, Macarena. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
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 redress policies in post-World War II Japan; views of masculinity linked to ... Read more
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 redress policies in post-World War II Japan; views of masculinity linked to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816655984
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V9780816655984
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About . Ed(S): Gray, Herman; Gomez-Barris, Macarena
Herman Gray is professor of sociology and communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Macarena Gómez-Barris is assistant professor of sociology and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
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