Car troubles : critical studies of automobility and auto-mobility /
The central premise of this book is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematised. The essays examine a wide range of issues that are central to automobility by situating it within social, economic and political contexts, and by combining social theory, specific case studies...
| Други автори: | Conley, Jim, 1951-, McLaren, Arlene Tigar. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub.,
℗♭2009.
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| Серия: |
Transport and society.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Print version::
Car troubles. |
Съдържание:
- T-bucket terrors to respectable rebels : hot rodders and drag racers in Vancouver BC, 1948-1965 / Catharine Genovese
- Automobile advertisements : the magical and the mundane / Jim Conley
- SUV advertising : constructing identities and practices / Fiona McLean
- Bad impressions : the will to concrete and the projectile economy of cities / Derek Simons
- The safety race : transitions to the fourth age of the automobile / David MacGregor
- Implementing restraint : automobile safety and the US debate over technological and social fixes / Jameson M. Wetmore
- Mind that child : childhood, traffic and walking in automobilized space / Damian Collins, Catherine Bean and Robin Kearns
- The politics of mobility : de-essentializing automobility and contesting urban space / Jason Henderson
- The chilean way to modernity : private roads, fast cars, neoliberal bodies / Ricardo Trumper and Patricia Tomic
- Driven to drive : cars and the problem of compulsory consumption / Dennis Soron
- Mobility as a positional good : implications for transport policy and planning / Todd Litman
- The global intensification of motorization and its impacts on urban social ecologies / George Martin
- Post-car mobilities / Kingsley Dennis and John Urry.