The Dig: Gun Culture and Masculinity in an Age of Decline

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🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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How does gun culture get built from the ground up? What are the everyday politics of guns? Sociologist Jennifer Carlson does ethnographic fieldwork that provides answers to these questions, showing how men see guns as a way to be a protector in a time of economic precocity and how the NRA’s massive training operation helps shape the racialized identity of “citizen protectors” defending “sheeple” against the “wolves.” Thanks to our supporters at Verso Books. Check out The Right to Have Rights by Stephanie DeGooyer, Alastair Hunt, Lida Maxwell, Samuel Moyn and Astra Taylor versobooks.com/books/2424-the-right-to-have-rights and Greece and the Reinvention of Politics by Alain Badiou versobooks.com/books/2560-greece-and-the-reinvention-of-politics. And support this podcast with $ at patreon.com/TheDig!

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0:00.0	This episode of the Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books
0:05.7	which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:11.8	One that you might like is the right to have rights by Stephanie De Goyer,
0:16.3	Alister Hunt, Lita Maxwell, and Samuel Moyen, with an afterward from Astra Taylor.
0:22.3	60 years ago the political with an exiled afterward from Astra Taylor.
0:23.0	60 years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship,
0:29.0	observed that before people can enjoy any of the inalienable rights of man,
0:34.3	before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on, there must
0:40.7	first be such a thing as the right to have rights.
0:44.0	The concept received little attention at the time,
0:47.0	but in our age of mass deportations,
0:50.0	Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state war, Muslims,
0:53.0	and extra-state war,
0:55.0	the phrase has become the center of a crucial and lively debate.
0:59.0	Here, five leading thinkers from very disciplines, including history, law, politics, and literary studies,
1:07.0	discuss the critical basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today. The right to have rights by Stephanie De Goyer, Alister Hunt, Lita Maxwell and
1:19.1	Samuel Moyne, with an afterward from Astra Taylor.
1:23.0	Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the dig a podcast from Jack
1:36.2	the magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from
1:40.6	Providence, Rhode Island. I recently wrote an essay for In These Times
1:45.0	about how we should think as leftist
1:48.0	about gun violence and gun control.
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