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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 tequila, Pancho Villa, and the Mexican Revolution; and the politics of subjectivity in 1970s political violence in Thailand.Contributors: Sarah Banet-Weiser, U of Southern California; Barbara A. Barnes, U of California, Berkeley; Marie Sarita Gaytán; Avery F. Gordon, U of California, Santa Barbara; Tanya McNeill, U of California, Santa Cruz; Sudarat Musikawong, Willamette U; Akiko Naono, U of Kyushu; Rebecca R. Scott, U of Missouri. Zusammenfassung Questions national identity by investigating the creation of memory and meaning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Prologue: Traces in the Social World Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray 1. Toward a Sociology of the Trace Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray Part I. Cartographies of Belonging 2. The Prisoner's Curse Avery F. Gordon 3. A Nation of Families: The Codification and (Be)longings of Heteropatriarchy Tanya McNeill 4. Culture, Masculinity, and the Time after Race Herman Gray 5. Producing Sacrificial Subjects for the Nation: Japan's War-related Redress Policy and the Endurance Doctrine Akiko Naono Part II. Spectacles of Consumption 6. Coal Heritage/Coal History: Progress, Tourism, and Mountaintop Removal Rebecca R. Scott 7. Ecoadventures in the American West: Innocence, Conflict, and Nation Making in Emptied Landscapes Barbara A. Barnes Part III. Managing and Reconciling Memory 8. Drinking the Nation and Making Masculinity: Tequila, the Revolution, and Mexican Identity Marie Sarita Gaytán 9. Reinscribing Memory through the Other 9/11 Macarena Gómez-Barris 10. Between Celebration and Mourning: Political Violence in Thailand in the 1970s Sudarat Musikawong Afterword: Traces in Social Worlds Sarah Banet-Weiser Contributors Index...
