Toward a Sociology of the Trace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816655984)

Using culture as an entry point, and informed by the work of contemporary social theorists, the essays in this volume identify and challenge sites where the representational dimension of social life produces national identity through scripts of belonging, or traces.
The contributors utilize empirically based studies of social policy, political economy, and social institutions to offer a new way of looking at the creation of meaning, representation, and memory. They scrutinize subjects such as narratives in the U.S. coal industry's change from digging mines to removing mountaintops; war-related redress policies in post-World War II Japan; views of masculinity linked to tequila, Pancho Villa, and the Mexican Revolution; and the politics of subjectivity in 1970s political violence in Thailand.
Contributors: Sarah Banet-Weiser, U of Southern California; Barbara A. Barnes, U of California, Berkeley; Marie Sarita Gayt疣; Avery F. Gordon, U of California, Santa Barbara; Tanya McNeill, U of California, Santa Cruz; Sudarat Musikawong, Willamette U; Akiko Naono, U of Kyushu; Rebecca R. Scott, U of Missouri.

Author: Herman Gray
ISBN-10: 0816655987
ISBN-13: 9780816655984
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2010
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 118