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

Other author/creatorBöhm, Steffen, 1973-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoMalden, MA : Blackwell Publishing/Sociological Review, 2006.
Description259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
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 noteLittle-343344--305131049252Z
General note"This book started life as a conference at Keele University on "automobility," in September 2002"--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006018125
ISBN1405152702
ISBN9781405152709

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Joyner General Stacks HE5611 .A36 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold