Automobilities (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Contributors: Mike Featherstone (Editor); Nigel Thrift (Editor); John Urry (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: July 12, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781412910897
Subjects: Motor cars: general interest; Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Social Theory; Social Science / Sociology / General; Automobiles; Social aspects
Description: "Automobilities presents one of the first and most wide-ranging examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility. Drawing on rich empirical detail, from ethnographies of office work on the motorway to the importance of the car in French cultural theory, the contributions demonstrate just how significant have been the economic, technological, social and political consequences of a pervasive and accelerating culture of the car."--Jacket.