Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Mass Shootings: Global Reasons and Consequences -- Defining mass shootings -- Analyzing shared experiences of mass shootings -- Mass shootings in Finland: Jokela and Kauhajoki -- Similarities and differences -- The global mass shooting phenomenon -- Reasons and consequences: what we know so far -- Interviews and methods -- Structure of this book -- Notes -- References -- 2. Stories of Grief, Strength, and Communities -- Solidarity and conflict -- Trauma processes and the construction of collective narratives -- Collective narratives in Jokela: shared grief, conflicted blame -- Collective narratives in Kauhajoki: silent solidarity -- Solidarity and conflict: simultaneous elements in trauma processes -- Strategies for recovery: memorialization and normalization -- Notes -- References -- 3. Chaotic Death: Evil, Fear, and Exclusion -- Sensemaking after senseless violence -- How evil becomes an explanation -- Inclusion and exclusion through the image of evil -- Insecurity and fear -- Note -- References -- 4. The Gendered Experience of Mass Shootings -- Mass shootings, masculinity, and male entitlement -- Emotional reactions, talking, and the "therapeutic"--Emotional orientations -- Renegotiating gendered emotional order through memorialization and recovery -- Gendered emotional practices and naturalized male violence -- Notes -- References -- 5. Memorialization: Practices of Solidarity and Conflict -- From mass shootings to mass mourning -- Forming social memory and collective identities -- Criticizing spontaneous memorialization -- The political in spontaneous memorialization -- Glocalized mourning: spontaneous solidarity as a global form -- Concluding thoughts -- References -- Index