Beyond Partisanship, Toward a Better Gun Debate | Jennifer Carlson | TEDxUArizona

MacArthur Fellow Jennifer Carlson talks about partisanship and the need to see beyond the either-or debate surrounding guns in U.S. politics. She discusses how partisanship often ends conversation, rather than providing a starting point for new questions and new curiosities. Jennifer asks us to let go of partisanship and discover the deeper layers that lie within ourselves and others. Jennifer Carlson, PhD, a 2022 MacArthur Fellow, researches gun politics, culture and trauma in the United States. She writes on the politics of guns in American life. She is the author of three books-Citizen-Protectors (Oxford), Policing the Second Amendment (Princeton), and Merchants of the Right (Princeton)-and has published widely in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Social Forces and Gender & Society. She is a frequent contributor to leading news outlets such as PBS, the New York Times, NPR, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. She is currently conducting National Science Foundation-funded research on gun violence survivors. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx