Car Troubles: Critical Studies of Automobility and Auto-Mobility

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Contents: Introduction, Jim Conley and Arlene Tigar McLaren Part 1 Cultures of Automobility: T-bucket terrors to respectable rebels: hot rodders and drag racers in Vancouver BC, 1948a 1965, Catharine Genovese Automobile advertisements: the magical and the mundane, Jim Conley SUV advertising: constructing identities and practices, Fiona McLean Bad impressions: the will to concrete and the projectile economy of cities, Derek Simons. Part 2 Risk and Regulation: The safety race: transitions to the 4th age of the automobile, David MacGregor Implementing restraint: automobile safety and the US debate over technological and social fixes, Jameson M. Wetmore 'Mind that child': childhood, traffic and walking in automobilized space, Damian Collins, Catherine Bean and Robin Kearns. Part 3 Inevitable Automobility?: The politics of mobility: de-essentializing automobility and contesting urban space, Jason Henderson The Chilean way to modernity: private roads, fast cars, neoliberal bodies, Ricardo Trumper and Patricia Tomic Driven to drive: cars and the problem of 'compulsory consumption', Dennis Soron. Part 4 Beyond the Car: Mobility as a positional good: implications for transport policy and planning, Todd Litman The global intensification of motorization and its impacts on urban social ecologies, George Martin Post-car mobilities, Kingsley Dennis and John Urry Index.

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