ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Making Sense of Communities of Arms
This project is an ethnographic study of the everyday deployment of firearms and their societal impact. It examines and compares the various ways firearms produce communities, and focuses on groups that are overlooked in the field of gun studies, such as gun owners associations and hunting clubs. ARMIES hypothesises that these communities are disruptive and transformative ones that exert tremendous power. For an accurate understanding of firearms, these communities must take centre stage. ARMIES spearheads a new research agenda that centralises these communities of arms as material, affective, and political ones that profoundly shape everyday life. It asks: How do firearms produce…
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