Description
Book SynopsisQuestions national identity by investigating the creation of memory and meaning.
Table of ContentsContents
Prologue: Traces in the Social World
Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray
1. Toward a Sociology of the Trace
Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray
Part I. Cartographies of Belonging
2. The Prisoner's Curse
Avery F. Gordon
3. A Nation of Families: The Codification and (Be)longings of Heteropatriarchy
Tanya McNeill
4. Culture, Masculinity, and the Time after Race
Herman Gray
5. Producing Sacrificial Subjects for the Nation: Japan's War-related Redress Policy and the Endurance Doctrine
Akiko Naono
Part II. Spectacles of Consumption
6. Coal Heritage/Coal History: Progress, Tourism, and Mountaintop Removal
Rebecca R. Scott
7. Ecoadventures in the American West: Innocence, Conflict, and Nation Making in Emptied Landscapes
Barbara A. Barnes
Part III. Managing and Reconciling Memory
8. Drinking the Nation and Making Masculinity: Tequila, the Revolution, and Mexican Identity
Marie Sarita Gaytán
9. Reinscribing Memory through the Other 9/11
Macarena Gómez-Barris
10. Between Celebration and Mourning: Political Violence in Thailand in the 1970s
Sudarat Musikawong
Afterword: Traces in Social Worlds
Sarah Banet-Weiser
Contributors
Index
