The Shooting: Living and Dying by the Gun in America

Un atelier organisé dans le cadre des activités de la Chaire CERI-CERIUM "Transformations contemporaines du policing" entre Sciences Po et l’Université de Montréal.

Avec:

Harel Shapira, University of Texas (Austin)

Harel Shapira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Shapira is an ethnographer who uses long-term participant observation in order to study political life in contemporary America, with an emphasis on right wing politics. He is the author of Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America (Princeton University Press), which explores the civilians who patrol the United States / Mexico border. He is currently writing a book on gun owners which explores how the notion of self-defense is deeply connected to group identity. Through fieldwork at gun schools, Shapira considers how people train their minds and bodies to use guns, and what such an education means for the future of American democracy.

Responsables scientifiques: Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Sciences Po-CERI / CNRS et Laurent Gayer, Sciences Po-CERI / CNRS