Towards a Cultural Ballistics of Guns

PRIBILSKY, Jason (Whitman Coll) Towards a Cultural Ballistics of 
Guns. This panel brings together new research into gun culture 
and the aftereffects of gun violence in the contemporary US. 
In the spaces between the protracted gun debate between 
unfettered access to firearms and calls for gun control, we 
highlight ways ethnographic attention can serve to reveal 
emerging structures of feelings around guns whereby citizens 
may be simultaneously “shocked and outraged” but also 
largely accepting of the conditions of gun violence. We also 
address new forms of visibility in the wake of gun violence 
that reveal hidden and as yet unexplored manifestations of the 
proliferation of firearm dangers. pribiljc@whitman.edu (W-78)