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Summary
Summary
Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In Against Automobility , a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile.
A critical account of the impact of the car on society, which is both liberated by and reliant upon motor vehicles.
Written by a panel of distinguished scholars from varying disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Examines automobility's effect on environmental, social, and political issues.
Will be of interest to those whose research focuses on geography, politics, consumption and cultural studies, critical theory, and the sociology of objects and everyday life.
Author Notes
Steffen Böhm is Lecturer in Management at the University of Essex and member of the editorial collective of ephemera: theory & politics in organization .
Campbell Jones is Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy and Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Business Ethics at the University of Leicester.
Chris Land is Lecturer in Management at the University of Essex. His research interests include the role of technology in the production and maintenance of human subjectivities and relationships of power and resistance within late-capitalist societies.
Matthew Paterson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the intersection between International Political Economy, International Relations theory and global environmental politics.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Part 1 Conceptualizing Automobility | p. 1 |
| Introduction: Impossibilities of automobility | p. 3 |
| Inhabiting the car | p. 17 |
| Driving the social | p. 32 |
| Part 2 Governing Automobility | p. 55 |
| Transport: disciplining the body that travels | p. 57 |
| 'Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre': assembling and governing the motorway driver in late 1950s Britain | p. 75 |
| Quantifying automobility: speed, 'Zero Tolerance' and democracy | p. 93 |
| Automobility and the liberal disposition | p. 113 |
| Part 3 Representing Automobility | p. 131 |
| No literal connection: images of mass commodification, US militarism, and the oil industry, in The Big Lebowski | p. 133 |
| The mimetics of mobile capital | p. 150 |
| Traffic, gender, modernism | p. 175 |
| Part 4 After Automobility | p. 191 |
| Virtual automobility: two ways to get a life | p. 193 |
| Bicycle messengers and the road to freedom | p. 208 |
| 'Always crashing in the same car': a head-on collision with the technosphere | p. 223 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 240 |
| Index | p. 245 |
