Against automobility / edited by Steffen Böhm ... [et al.].
Material type: TextSeries: Sociological review monographsPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.Description: 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781405152709:
- 1405152702
- Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects -- Congresses
- Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Congresses
- Autonomy (Philosophy) -- Congresses
- Movement (Philosophy) -- Congresses
- Automotive technology & trades
- Pollution & threats to the environment
- Cultural studies
- Social theory
- Sociology & anthropology
- 306.4819
- .A36 2006
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Lending | Carlow Campus Library General Lending | 306.4819 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 53364 |
CW738
"This book started life as a conference at Keele University on "automobility," in September 2002"--Acknowledgements.
CW015, CW088.
CW707
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
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