Cars define the modern age, and there are few more powerful signifiers of contemporary consumer capitalism than private automobility. The presumption for vehicle ownership is writ through twenty-first century life to the extent that there are
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Media Ecologies of Autonomous Automobility
Gendered and Racial Dimensions of Future Concept Cars
Julia M. Hildebrand and Mimi Sheller
,” potentially distributing and organizing mobilities in new ways, or as dystopias of malfunctioning technology. 4 The suggested “new automobile paradigm” significantly affects not only the act of driving but also our “aesthetic, emotional and sensory responses
Automobility and Oil Vulnerability
Unfairness as Critical to Energy Transitions
Ana Horta
societies, and some, such as automobility, correspond to complex sociotechnical systems and practices with countless implications. It is unclear how these can be changed, and the uncertainties involved in such processes of transitioning require attention to
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 134–145 (12 total)
Diverse Driving Emotions
Exploring Chinese Migrants’ Mobilities in a Car-Dependent City
Sophie-May Kerr, Natascha Klocker, and Gordon Waitt
of ethnic minority migrants, unsettle pervasive narratives of automobility. Dominant academic and public discourses that frame an “appropriate citizenship of mobility” or “good life” 3 around automobility sustain a car dependence that is
Keep Moving, Stay Tuned
The Construction of Flow in and through Radio Traffic Reports
Marith Dieker
congested traffic up ahead. In the second half of the twentieth century, this became one of the functions of radio traffic reports. During that period, however, the context in which these reports were aired changed considerably, as the automobile became the
From the Auto-mobile to the Driven Subject?
Discursive Assertions of Mobility Futures
Katharina Manderscheid
Automobility has been identified as a fundamental element of modern Western socialities and corresponding identities, deeply interwoven with power relations and social inequalities. 1 By this token, social science literature has repeatedly
Taking the Road for Play
Cyclist Appropriations of Automobile Infrastructures in Vietnam
Ashley Carruthers
After declining in status and mode share sharply with the popularization of the motorcycle, cycling in Vietnam is on the rise. Urban elites who pursue sport and leisure cycling are the most visible of Vietnam’s new cyclists, and they bring their sense of social mastery out onto the road with them by appropriating the nation’s new, automobile-focused infrastructures as places for play and display. While motivated by self-interest, their informal activism around securing bicycle access to new bridges and highways potentially benefits all and contributes to making livable cities. These socially elite cyclists transcend the status associated with their means of mobility as they enact their mastery over automobile infrastructures meant to usher in a new Vietnamese automobility.
Discipline and Publish?
Transfers as Interdisciplinary Site
Cotten Seiler
spirit” across the Atlantic and the North American continent. Not surprisingly, this scholarship tended to celebrate the regimes of loco- and automobility emplaced on the contemporary landscape by drawing a direct line of descent from nineteenth
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Autonomous Driving and the Transformation of Car Cultures
Jutta Weber and Fabian Kröger
The automobile elicits a wide range of feelings: the pleasure of driving may include the experience of power, freedom, autonomy, independence, speed—and virility. 1 In daily road congestion, however, the pursuit of individual mobility often
Georgine Clarsen
Paul Gilroy observed in 2001 that there were “surprisingly few” discussions of automobiles in histories of African American vernacular cultures, in spite of their “epoch-making impact.” He argued that a “ distinctive history of propertylessness and material deprivation” had led to a disproportionate African American investment in automobiles. This article considers how car culture has also operated as a salve for the “indignities of white supremacy” for Indigenous Australians, though on very different terms.
In Mobility in History
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 51–60 (10 total)