@article{ref1,
title="Antagonisms and the discursive sedimentation of American gun culture: a new framework",
journal="Cultural studies <=> critical methodologies",
year="2017",
author="Anisin, Alexei",
volume="17",
number="2",
pages="133-139",
abstract="This article offers a new critical viewpoint of American gun culture through the use of political discourse theory. I argue that the historical evolvement and position of guns in the United States has coincided alongside a process of discursive sedimentation. The latter has fostered a contradictory antagonistic relationship which hitherto, has not been properly accounted for by scholars and activists. Specifically, this antagonism is indicative of a binary relationship that exists between a notion of socio-political freedom and its discursively relational opposites, slavery, anarchy, and tyranny. Concepts taken from discourse theory are applied to examine this antagonistic relationship. This is followed by a proposal to incorporate nonviolence into debates on gun reform.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1532-7086",
doi="10.1177/1532708616670078",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708616670078"
}