Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
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Author : Jeremy Scott Packer
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
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Author : Jeremy Packer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0822388901
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.
Author : Zack Furness
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2010-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781592136148
The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.
Author : US Pres TF Highway Safety
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Author : Jack Z. Bratich
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791473344
Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.
Author : Tore Sager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317033787
With this book the international academic discourse on mobility is taken a step further, through the intertwined perspectives of different social sciences, engineering and the humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities departs from the recent interest in social surveillance, raised by the use of technology for the surveillance and control of mobility as well as for transport. It widens this theme to encompass a broad scale of issues, ranging from freedom and escape to social exclusion and control, thus raising important questions of ethics, identity and religion; questions that are dealt with by a diverse, yet structured range of chapters, arranged around the themes of ethics and religion, and freedom and control. Through their variety and diversity of perspectives, the chapters of this book offer a substantial interdisciplinary contribution to the socially and environmentally relevant discussion about what a technically and economically accelerating mobility does to life and how it might be transformed to sustain a more life-enhancing future. Ethics of Mobilities will excite not only international interest, but will also appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines, in fields as diverse as theology and engineering.
Author : Marcel Endres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317023862
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?