Toward a Sociology of the Trace

<div>Using culture as an entry point and informed by the work of contemporary social theorists the essays in this volume identify and challenge sites where the representational dimension of social life produces national identity through scripts of belonging or traces.</div> <div><br> The contributors utilize empirically based studies of social policy political economy and social institutions to offer a new way of looking at the creation of meaning representation and memory. They scrutinize subjects such as narratives in the U.S. coal industry's change from digging mines to removing mountaintops; war-related redress policies in post-World War II Japan; views of masculinity linked to tequila Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution; and the politics of subjectivity in 1970s political violence in Thailand.</div> <div><br> Contributors: Sarah Banet-Weiser U of Southern California; Barbara A. Barnes U of California Berkeley; Marie Sarita Gaytán; Avery F. Gordon U of California Santa Barbara; Tanya McNeill U of California Santa Cruz; Sudarat Musikawong Willamette U; Akiko Naono U of Kyushu; Rebecca R. Scott U of Missouri.</div>