Against automobility / edited by Steffen Böhm [and others].
| Other author | Böhm, Steffen, 1973- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing/Sociological Review, 2006. |
| Description | 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Sociological review monographs Sociological review monograph. ^A512623 |
| Contents | 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 / Sudhir 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. |
| Local note | Little-343344--305131049252Z |
| General note | "This book started life as a conference at Keele University on "automobility," in September 2002"--Acknowledgements. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006018125 |
| ISBN | 1405152702 |
| ISBN | 9781405152709 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HE5611 .A36 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |