Towards a Cultural Ballistics of Guns

PRIBILSKY, Jason (Whitman Coll) Towards a Cultural Ballistics of  Guns. This panel brings together new research into gun culture  and the aftereffects of gun violence in the contemporary US.  In the spaces between the protracted gun debate between  unfettered access to firearms and calls for gun control, we  highlight ways ethnographic attention can serve to reveal  emerging structures of feelings around guns whereby citizens  may be simultaneously “shocked and outraged” but also  largely accepting of the conditions of gun violence. We also  address new forms of visibility in the wake of gun violence  that reveal hidden and as yet unexplored manifestations of the  proliferation of firearm dangers. [e-mail] (W-78)