Title & Author:

Against automobility / edited by Steffen Böhm [and others].

Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, ©2006.

Description:

259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Sociological review monographs

Notes:
"This book started life as a conference at Keele University on "automobility," in September 2002"--Page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Impossibilities of automobility / Steffen Böhm [and others] -- 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.

Summary:

A critical account of the impact of the car on society, this text was written by a panel of scholars from varying disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. It examines automobility's effect on environmental, social and political issues.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781405152709 (paperback)
1405152702 (paperback)

Subject:

Transportation, Automotive Social aspects Congresses.
Automobiles Social aspects Congresses.
Autonomy (Philosophy) Congresses.
Movement (Philosophy) Congresses.
Transports routiers Aspect social Congrès.
Automobiles Aspect social Congrès.
Autonomie (Philosophie) Congrès.
Mouvement (Philosophie) Congrès.
Automobiles Social aspects
Autonomy (Philosophy)
Movement (Philosophy)
Transportation, Automotive Social aspects
Gesellschaft
Kraftwagen
Mobilität
Transport
Verkehr
Mobiliteit (algemeen)
Autogebruik.
Sociologische aspecten.
Automòbils Aspectes socials Congressos.
Kongress <Keele 2002>

Form/genre:

Congress
Kongress Keele 2002.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Böhm, Steffen, 1973- editor.
Sociological review monograph.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249016
Call No.: BIB 178585
Status: Available