TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Antagonisms and the discursive sedimentation of American gun culture: a new framework
JO  - Cultural studies <=> critical methodologies
A1  - Anisin, Alexei
SP  - 133
EP  - 139
VL  - 17
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1532-7086
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708616670078
ID  - ref1
ER  -