by David Yamane | Dec 18, 2021 | gender, Gun Culture, militarization, race, vigilantism
I confess to not being a regular reader of the Boston Review but my Google alert this morning for both “gun owners” and “gun culture” pointed me to a recent essay published by political philosopher Chad Kautzer, “America as a Tactical Gun...
by David Yamane | Dec 15, 2021 | gender, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
As noted earlier, the final assignment of the semester in my Sociology of Guns seminar is for the students to write an essay reflecting on their personal experience with and understanding of guns in light of what they learned in the course. Here is the second of...
by David Yamane | Aug 2, 2021 | gender, gun ownership, hegemonic masculinity, LGBT, sexuality, Sociology of Guns Seminar, women
Module 6 is not covered in these posts because it is a work week for students as I will be presenting on Gun Culture 2.0 at the Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conference in Vermont that week. Recognizing that the four parts of the Holy Quaternity of...
by David Yamane | Jan 25, 2021 | Advertising, Data, gender, Gun Culture, The American Rifleman, women
TLDR: I just posted a publicly-accessible pre-print of a book chapter, “A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019,” co-authored with recent Wake Forest University graduate (and current George Washington University Law...
by David Yamane | Jul 31, 2020 | Books, COVID19, gender, Gun Culture, Personal Protection, race, review, settler colonialism, sexuality
I have been very fortunate that my job has not been adversely affected in a major way by the COVID19 pandemic this year. Which is not to say that it has been completely unaffected. The already inadequate amount of funding I receive from Wake Forest to conduct my...