Schools under Fire?: School Shootings and the Construction of a Cultural Discourse of Emergency

Contrary to popular belief, rampage violence at suburban and rural schools occurred before the infamous Columbine High School shooting in April 1999. While school shootings — before Columbine gained international media attention — were treated as a local rather than a national or even international...

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Main Author: Silke Braselmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 2016-05-01
Series:On_Culture
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Online Access:https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-1/school-shootings-emergency/