Car troubles : critical studies of automobility and auto-mobility /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Conley, Jim, 1951-, McLaren, Arlene Tigar
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2009]
Series:Transport and society.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.