Actions for Against automobility
Against automobility / edited by Steffen Böhm [and others].
- Published
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing/Sociological Review, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Böhm, Steffen, 1973-
- Series
- Contents
- Impossibilities of automobility / Steffen Böhm ... [et al.] -- Inhabiting the car / John Urry -- Driving the social / Joanna Latimer and Rolland Munro -- Transport : disciplining the body that travels / Jennifer Bonham -- 'Mirror, signal, manoeuvre' : assembling and governing the motorway driver in late 1950s Britain / Peter Merriman -- Quantifying automobility : speed, 'zero tolerance' and democracy / Per-Anders Forstorp -- Automobility and the liberal disposition / Sudir Chella Rajan -- No literal connection : images of mass commodification, US militarism, and the oil industry, in The Big Lebowski / David Martin-Jones -- The mimetics of mobile capital / Nicole Shukin -- Traffic, gender, modernism / Andrew Thacker -- Virtual automobility : two ways to get a life / J. Hillis Miller -- Bicycle messengers and the road to freedom / Ben Fincham -- 'Always crashing in the same car' : a head-on collision with the technosphere / Mark Dery.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1405152702
9781405152709 - Note
- "This book started life as a conference at Keele University on "automobility," in September 2002"--Acknowledgements.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20067.
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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