Car troubles :critical studies of automobility and auto-mobility
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT
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Ashgate Pub.
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2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 258 p. : illus
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Transport and society
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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]edited by[ Jim Conley and Arlene Tigar McLaren
ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE
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T-bucket terrors to respectable rebels : hot rodders and drag racers in Vancouver BC, 8491-5691 / 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