Sensitive Places?: How Gender Unmasks the Myth of Originalism in<i>District of Columbia</i>v.<i>Heller</i>

Liebell, Susan P.

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“…This is often analyzed through the lens of masculinity. As Susan Liebell ( 2021 ) points out, in the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller (554 US 570 (2008)), the Supreme Court endorsed a patriarchal theory of self-defense in the home that emphasized individual men as protectors and defenders of women and domestic property. Guns, linked to self-defense and masculinity, bring this hyper-individualism to bear on public spaces.…”

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“…To work through these questions, this article brings together political theories of whiteness (Beltrán, 2020 ; Du Bois, 1997 [1935], 1999 [1920]; Olson, 2004 ; Hooker, 2017 ; Myers, 2019 ) and political theoretical analyses of gun-rights debates (Anker, 2018 ; DeBrabander, 2015 ; Kautzer, 2020 ; Liebell, 2020 , 2021 ; Obert et al, 2018a ) with critical scholarship on guns from anthropology, performance studies and qualitative sociology about guns (Carlson, 2015 ; Livingston, 2018 ; Livingston & Young, 2020 ; Melzer, 2009 ; Shapira & Simon, 2018 ). By turning to this range of interdisciplinary scholarship that illuminates a set of relationships between guns and whiteness, we work to transpose those ideas into insights for political theory.…”

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Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness

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2023

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2023

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Democracy in Disarray

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Tien³

2021

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K en Fisher aka "Ruben Bolling" (winner of the 2017 Herblock Prize, 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and a finalist for a 2019 Pulitzer Prize) generously offered Polity permission to use any of his wonderfully poignant cartoons for our Spring cover. He worried that the image we ultimately selected, "Busy, Busy Day in Trump's America" from September of 2020, would be dated by the time the issue appeared in print in April of 2021. Wishful thinking, we suspect. Among the many aspects of life disrupted by COVID-19, the loss of temporality ranks high on the list. It is not so much that what is old is new again, but that we are trapped in an eternal recurrence, or an indefinite prolongation of the present.Drawn in the style of Richard Scarry's classic "busy, busy people" children's books, the graphic captures some of the tropes that dominated our political discourse in the final year of the Trump Administration. It vividly illustrates a democracy in disarray, where this refers not to party polarization, but state repression at all levels, the mobilization of far-right forces, the destructive denial of climate science, the gross mismanagement of the pandemic response, and a looming economic disaster that is already being felt by the poor and working class.That this chaos is depicted in images associated with childhood allows us to laugh momentarily at the sources of real anxiety for many in Trump's America. Can humor serve a critical and pedagogical purpose? Trump's brazen disregard for norms has left even those critical of the disciplinary effects of various forms of normativity almost eager for their return. His neglect extends well beyond the norms and institutions of American society to the American people, including his own supporters. As we write this editors' note, COVID-19 has killed 333,000 Americans and more than 1.7 million people worldwide, with hundreds of thousands

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The Politics of Law: Capricious Originalism and the Future of the Supreme Court

Liebell

2023

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Sensitive Places?: How Gender Unmasks the Myth of Originalism inDistrict of Columbiav.Heller

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness

Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness

Democracy in Disarray

The Politics of Law: Capricious Originalism and the Future of the Supreme Court

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