{"product_id":"lives-of-guns-hardcover","title":"Lives of Guns - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Obert\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Poe\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAustin Sarat\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuns have never been as prevalent in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns either highlight the gun as just a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended; eventually, whatever progress these debates foster in the public conversation tend to halt altogether once the old cliché, \"guns don't kill people; people kill people\" is trotted out. These gun control and gun violence discussions take the gun as passive object, ignoring the changing effects, and the very agency, that guns may deploy as politicized objects. What happens if we reset the conversation and admit that guns, and not the people behind them, kill people? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lives of Guns\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new and compelling way of thinking about the role of the gun in our social and political lives. In gathering ideas from law, science studies, sociology, and politics, each chapter turns the stale, standard gun conversations around by investigating the gun as an object with agency. In approaching guns from a technological perspective, down to the very science of how they are created and how they fire, \u003cem\u003eThe Lives of Guns\u003c\/em\u003e takes up a number of questions, such as: How does the presence of these objects shape civic ideology? What does it mean to develop and care for gun and gun accessories technology? What do guns mean to those who build them versus those who fight for-and against-them? What could happen when drone technology meets gun technology? In bringing together fresh perspectives from leading lawyers, political scientists, and historians, The Lives of Guns promises to move the gun debate forward by opening up new ways of thinking about these issues and broadening the scope of these perennial debates.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Obert\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Politics at Amherst College. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2014 and is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Six-Shooter State: Public and Private Violence in American Politics\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Poe\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Amherst College. Professor Poe received his PhD in Political Science of the University of California (San Diego) in 2010 and is currently completing a book titled \u003cem\u003eThe Release of Political Enthusiasm\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustin Sarat\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Professor Sarat is author or editor of more than 90 books, including \u003cem\u003eGruesome Spectacles\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003e Re-imagining To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eMercy on Trial \u003c\/em\u003e(2005), \u003cem\u003eWhen the State Kills \u003c\/em\u003e(2001), and \u003cem\u003eGuns in Law\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming, 2019).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45421984972902,"sku":"9780190842925","price":68.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/WExJUGRQRmpjZWM4cGpzYVZGUFprUT09.webp?v=1775508631","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/lives-of-guns-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}