Mobility Without Mayhem


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Mobility Without Mayhem


Mobility Without Mayhem
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Author : Jeremy Packer
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-05

Mobility Without Mayhem written by Jeremy Packer and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-05 with Transportation categories.


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


Mobility Without Mayhem
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Author : Jeremy Packer
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-26

Mobility Without Mayhem written by Jeremy Packer and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-26 with History categories.


DIVA cultural studies account of automobiles and concerns about safety in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present./div



Mobility Without Mayhem


Mobility Without Mayhem
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Author : United States. President's Task Force on Highway Safety
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

Mobility Without Mayhem written by United States. President's Task Force on Highway Safety and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Government publications categories.




Ghana On The Go


Ghana On The Go
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Author : Jennifer Hart
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-03

Ghana On The Go written by Jennifer Hart and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-03 with History categories.


As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.



Mobility Space And Culture


Mobility Space And Culture
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Author : Peter Merriman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012

Mobility Space And Culture written by Peter Merriman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Social Science categories.


Over the past 10 to 15 years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. Here, Peter Merriman provides a contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to rethink the relationship between movement, embodied practices, space and place.



Unhomed


Unhomed
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Author : Pamela Robertson Wojcik
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-04-09

Unhomed written by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-09 with Performing Arts categories.


In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed—characters who fail, resist, or opt out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the silent era to the 2021 Oscar-winning Nomadland, Wojcik reveals a tension in the American imaginary between viewing homelessness as deviant and threatening or emblematic of freedom and independence. Blending social history with insights drawn from a complex array of films, both canonical and fringe, Wojcik effectively "unhomes" dominant narratives that cast aspirations for success and social mobility as the focus of American cinema, reminding us that genres of precarity have been central to American cinema (and the American story) all along.



Mobility Mobilization And Counter Insurgency


Mobility Mobilization And Counter Insurgency
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Author : Daniel E Agbiboa
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-02-15

Mobility Mobilization And Counter Insurgency written by Daniel E Agbiboa and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with Political Science categories.


Mobility as the driving force of armed conflict



Postcolonial Automobility


Postcolonial Automobility
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Author : Lindsey B. Green-Simms
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2017-10-24

Postcolonial Automobility written by Lindsey B. Green-Simms and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.


For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism. This pioneering book considers how, through the lens of the automobile, we can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Through new and provocative readings of famous plays, novels, and films, as well as recent popular videos, Postcolonial Automobility reveals the surprising ways in which automobility in the region is, at once, an everyday practice, an ethos, a fantasy of autonomy, and an affective activity intimately tied to modern social life. Lindsey B. Green-Simms begins with the history of motorization in West Africa from the colonial era to the decolonizing decades after World War II, and addresses the tragedy of car accidents through a close reading of Wole Soyinka’s 1965 postindependence play The Road. Shifting to screen media, she discusses Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Quartier Mozart and reviews popular, low-budget Nollywood films. Finally, Green-Simms considers how feminist texts rewrite and work in dialogue with the male-centered films and novels where the car stands in for patriarchal power and capitalist achievement. Providing a unique perspective on technology in Africa—one refusing to be confined to narratives of either underdevelopment or inevitable progress—and covering a broad range of interdisciplinary material, Postcolonial Automobility will appeal not only to scholars and students of African literature and cinema but also to those in postcolonial and globalization studies.



One Less Car


One Less Car
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Author : Zack Furness
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-12

One Less Car written by Zack Furness and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-12 with Political Science categories.


The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.



Road Scars


Road Scars
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Author : Robert Matej Bednar
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2020-07-21

Road Scars written by Robert Matej Bednar and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Social Science categories.


Despite the ubiquity of automobility, the reality of automotive death is hidden from everyday view. There are accident blackspots all over the roads that we use and go past every day but the people that have died there or been injured are not marked, unless by homemade shrines and personal memorialization. Nowhere on the planet is this practice as densely actioned as in the United States. Road Scars is a highly visual scholarly monograph about how roadside car crash shrines place the collective trauma of living in a car culture in the everyday landscapes of automobility. Roadside shrines—or road trauma shrines—are vernacular memorial assemblages built by private individuals at sites where family and friends have died in automobile accidents, either while driving cars or motorcycles or being hit by cars as pedestrians, bicyclists, or motorcyclists. Prevalent for decades in Latin America and in the American Southwest, roadside car crash shrines are now present throughout the U.S. and around the world. Some are simply small white crosses, almost silent markers of places of traumatic death. Others are elaborate collections of objects, texts, and materials from all over the map culturally and physically, all significantly brought together not in the home or in a cemetery but on the roadside, in drivable public space—a space where private individuals perform private identities alongside each other in public, and where these private mobilities sometimes collide with one another in traumatic ways that are negotiated in roadside shrines. This book touches on something many of us have seen, but few have explored intellectually.