Car troubles
Subtitle: critiques of automobility and auto-mobility
By: edited by Jim Conley and Arlene Tigar McLaren.
Contributors: Conley, Jim, 1951-; McLaren, Arlene Tigar.
Series: Transport and society
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780754677727; 9780754695226
Subjects: Automobiles -- Social aspects -- History; Transportation and state -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: T-bucket terrors to respectable rebels : hot rodders and drag racers in Vancouver BC, 1948-1965 / Catharine Genovese; title: Automobile advertisements : the magical and the mundane / Jim Conley; title: SUV advertising : constructing identities and practices / Fiona McLean; title: Bad impressions : the will to concrete and the projectile economy of cities / Derek Simons; title: The safety race : transitions to the fourth age of the automobile / David MacGregor; title: Implementing restraint : automobile safety and the US debate over technological and social fixes / Jameson M. Wetmore; title: Mind that child : childhood, traffic and walking in automobilized space / Damian Collins, Catherine Bean and Robin Kearns; title: The politics of mobility : de-essentializing automobility and contesting urban space / Jason Henderson; title: The chilean way to modernity : private roads, fast cars, neoliberal bodies / Ricardo Trumper and Patricia Tomic; title: Driven to drive : cars and the problem of compulsory consumption / Dennis Soron; title: Mobility as a positional good : implications for transport policy and planning / Todd Litman; title: The global intensification of motorization and its impacts on urban social ecologies / George Martin; title: Post-car mobilities / Kingsley Dennis and John Urry.