Up in Arms: Gun Imaginaries in Texas

Benita Heiskanen, Ph.D. (2004), University of Texas at Austin, is Professor of North American Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Her works include The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring (New York: Routledge, 2012). Albion M. Butters, Ph.D. (2006), Columbia University, is a Research Fellow at the John Morton Center for North American Studies at the University of Turku. His research interests include Cultural Studies and the History of Religion. Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Ph.D. (2021), University of Turku, is University Teacher at the John Morton Center for North American Studies. His dissertation in cultural history examines the use of rock as a political concept in the 1980s and 1990s U.S.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Loaded with the Past, Coloring the Present: The Power of Gun ImaginariesBenita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, and Pekka M. Kolehmainen2 We are Texas Because of Guns: Firearms in Texan and “American” ImaginariesLaura Hernández-Ehrisman3 The Founding Fathers in the Temporal Imaginaries of Texas Gun PoliticsPekka M. Kolehmainen4 “I Forgive Him, Yes”: Gendered Trauma Narratives of the Texas Tower ShootingLotta Kähkönen5 Triggered: The Imaginary Realities of Campus Carry in TexasBenita Heiskanen6 Radical Political Imagination and Generational Utopias: Gun Control as a Site of Youth ActivismMila Seppälä7 Pro-Campus Carry Video Imaginaries at The University of Texas AustinJuha A. Vuori8 Firearms Fetishism in Texas: Entanglements of Gun Imaginaries and BeliefAlbion M. Butters9 Imaging Texas Gun Culture: A Photo EssayAlbion M. Butters, Benita Heiskanen, and Lotta Kähkönen10 The Explanatory, Social, and Performative Power of Gun ImaginariesBenita Heiskanen and Pekka M. KolehmainenIndex