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Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
Author: Mobility Without Mayham
Author: Jeremy Scott PackerMobility Without Mayhem
Author: Jeremy PackerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
DIVA cultural studies account of automobiles and concerns about safety in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present./div
One Less Car
Author: Zack FurnessPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592136148
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.
Mobility without Mayhem
Author: Jeremy PackerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822388901
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed on what constitutes safe, decorous driving or who is capable of it. Mobility without Mayhem is a lively cultural history of America’s fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Jeremy Packer analyzes how driving has been understood by experts, imagined by citizens, regulated by traffic laws, governed through education and propaganda, and represented in films, television, magazines, and newspapers. Whether considering motorcycles as symbols of rebellion and angst, or the role of CB radio in regulating driving and in truckers’ evasions of those regulations, Packer shows that ideas about safe versus risky driving often have had less to do with real dangers than with drivers’ identities. Packer focuses on cultural figures that have been singled out as particularly dangerous. Women drivers, hot-rodders, bikers, hitchhikers, truckers, those who “drive while black,” and road ragers have all been targets of fear. As Packer debunks claims about the dangers posed by each figure, he exposes biases against marginalized populations, anxieties about social change, and commercial and political desires to profit by fomenting fear. Certain populations have been labeled as dangerous or deviant, he argues, to legitimize monitoring and regulation and, ultimately, to curtail access to automotive mobility. Packer reveals how the boundary between personal freedom and social constraint is continually renegotiated in discussions about safe, proper driving.
Mobility without mayhem
Author: US Pres TF Highway SafetyPublisher:
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Conspiracy Panics
Author: Jack Z. BratichPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791473344
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.
Mobility Without Mayhem. The Report of the President's Task Force on Highway Safety
Author: Mobility Without Mayhem
Author: United States. President's task force on highway safetyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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The Mobilities Paradigm
Author: Marcel EndresPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317023862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Over the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become an important strand of social science. Yet, the increasing importance of mobilities in all parts of the social does not only happen as observable practices in the material world but also takes place against the background of changing discourses, scientific theories and conceptualisations and knowledge. Within the formation of these mobilities discourses, the social sciences constitute a relevant actor. Focussing on mobility as an object of knowledge from a Foucauldian perspective rather than a given entity within the historical contingency of movement, this book asks: How do discourses and ideologies structure the normative substance, social meanings, and the lived reality of mobilities? What are the real world effects of/on the will and the ability to be mobile? And, how do these lived realities, in turn, invigorate or interfere with certain discourses and ideologies of mobility?