Screen LibraryAgainst automobility
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Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Malden, MA |
| Publication Dates: | c2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sociological review monographs |
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| Carrier Form: | 259 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781405152709 1405152702 |
| Index Number: | C913 |
| CLC: | C913.32-532 |
| Call Number: | C913.32-532/A259/2002 |
| Contents: |
"This book started life as a conference at Keele University on "automobility," in September 2002"--P. . Includes bibliographical references and index. Impossibilities of automobility / Steffen Böhm ... [et al.] -- Inhabiting the car / John Urry -- Driving the social / Joanna Latimer and Rolland Munro -- Transport : disciplining the body that travels / Jennifer Bonham -- 'Mirror, signal, manoeuvre' : assembling and governing the motorway driver in late 1950s Britain / Peter Merriman -- Quantifying automobility : speed, 'zero tolerance' and democracy / Per-Anders Forstorp -- Automobility and the liberal disposition / Sudir Chella Rajan -- No literal connection : images of mass commodification, US militarism, and the oil industry, in The Big Lebowski / David Martin-Jones -- The mimetics of mobile capital / Nicole Shukin -- Traffic, gender, modernism / Andrew Thacker -- Virtual automobility : two ways to get a life / J. Hillis Miller -- Bicycle messengers and the road to freedom / Ben Fincham -- 'Always crashing in the same car' : a head-on collision with the technosphere / Mark Dery. |