Document Type
Introduction
Abstract
[First paragraph]
A recent issue of Reconstruction, along with a good deal of the current one, treats the combination of "space and place." Given the space to write and a place to put it, thoughts immediately turned to a focus on those two themes, as well. More specifically, the place is the U.S. and the space is one for protesting-or even questioning-the thing that the place has become. As much as I sympathize with, laud and wish I could participate in the protests in Ferguson, New York and elsewhere I cannot help but feel that these are too narrowly focussed and miss the root cause of the problem. Simply put, the very foundation of the U.S. and its enshrinement of unethical, immoral and inhumane practices and tenets within the constitution, all three branches of government and simple quotidian existence permit and perpetuate a culture predicated on the immediacy of violence, especially the seemingly ineluctable appeal to guns. Two years ago, I wrote on a similar topic following the massacre at Sandy Hook. What if anything has changed about the space in which that happened and the places where it has happened since?
Repository Citation
Ouellette, Marc. "Introduction: Wishful Space for a Safer Place." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 14, no. 4, 2014, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol14/iss4/1