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After Gun Violence:

Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock
  • ISBN-13: 9780271083841
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Craig Rood
  • Price: AUD $49.99
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2019
  • Format: Paperback 200 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Public administration [JPP]
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A rhetorical study of the American political debate on gun violence and gun policy. Examines the role of public memory in shaping this discourse and its eventual policy outcomes.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Deliberating Gun Violence

1 Deliberation and Memory

2 The Weight of the Past: Memory and the Second Amendment

3 The Fleeting Past: Memory and Our Obligations to the Dead

4 The Implicit Past: Memory and Racism

5 Conclusions for Moving Beyond Gridlock

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index



“A thoughtful and sobering analysis of America’s inability to engage in serious deliberation about gun violence. Rood traces the way that past debates have created a sense that the problem is simply intractable and demonstrates the way recent efforts to deal with gun violence were crushed under the weight of past failures. Drawing on the long history of rhetoric, Rood is able not only to analyze the present difficulties but also to suggest productive ways to move these debates forward. The stakes for such a project have never been higher. Rood’s book should be required reading for any citizen wanting to engage in a real debate about the role of guns in American society.”

—Kendall R. Phillips, co-director, The Lender Center for Social Justice

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