Transportation and the culture of climate change : accelerating ride to global crisis / edited by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
- Published
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Prorokova, Tatiana
Access Online
- Series
- Contents
- Part I: Mobility and the Environment: Using Heritage and Ecological Systems Thinking to Inform Resilient Automobility Design / Barry L. Stiefel -- Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar American Transportation Culture and the Legacy of Moving Images / James Longhurst -- E-Scooters and the Urban Micromobility Revolution / Matthew C. Swanson -- Part II: Car Cultures: "Carbolization": Cars, Carbon Emissions, and the Global Discipline of Automobility / Gordon M. Sayre -- Hydrocarbon Enslavement and Fantasies of Freedom / Patrick D. Murphy -- Suicide Machines: Bruce Springsteen, Ballard, and Broken Heroes on a Last Chance Power Drive / David LaRocca -- Remainders of the Fossil Regime: Automobility Regression in Three Post-Apocalyptic Novels / Brent Ryan Bellamy -- Part III: Film, Energy, and Climate Change: Intermodal Aesthetics and the Otherwise of Cargo / Megan Hayes and Jeff Diamanti -- Nature Guarding "Her Treasures" in Oil Comedies: The Case of Local Hero and Fubar: Balls to the Wall / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann -- Boom/Bust: Tragic Logistics and Accelerationist Comedy in Petroleum Transport / C. Parker Krieg -- Trafficking in Petronormativities: At the Intersections of Petrofeminism, Petrocolonialism, and Petrocapitalism / Sheena Wilson.
- Summary
- "This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material, logistical question but as a phenomenon mediated by culture, the book interrogates popular assumptions deeply entangled with energy choices. Rethinking transportation, the contributors argue, necessarily involves fundamental understandings of consumption, freedom, and self"--
- Subject(s)
- Transportation—Environmental aspects
- Transportation—Social aspects
- Transportation, Automotive—Environmental aspects
- Transportation, Automotive—Social aspects
- Petroleum as fuel—Social aspects
- Transport—Aspect social
- Transports routiers—Aspect de l'environnement
- Transports routiers—Aspect social
- Transport—Aspect de l'environnement
- ISBN
- 9781949199659 (electronic book)
1949199657 (electronic book)
1949199649
9781949199642
1949199630
9781949199635 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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