Vehicle For Culture
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Car Cultures
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Author : Daniel Miller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-26
Car Cultures written by Daniel Miller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-26 with Social Science categories.
Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should read this book. Profoundly shaped by culture, the car gives rise to a wide range of emotions, from guilt about the environment in the UK to aboriginal concerns with car corpses, to struggles to keep the creatures alive with everything but the proper spare parts in West Africa. Cars and their landscapes prove central to human life from its most intimate to the widest sense of global crisis, and are capable of inspiring epic passions. From road rage in Western Europe to the struggles of cab driving in Africa to the emergence of Black identity in the US, this book examines the essential humanity of the car, which includes the jealousies, gender differences, fears and moralities that cars give rise to. Firmly grounded in detailed ethnographic and historical scholarship, this is the first book to provide an informed sense of cars as one of the most familiar and significant forms of material culture.
The Motor Car And Popular Culture In The Twentieth Century
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Author : David Thoms
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Motor Car And Popular Culture In The Twentieth Century written by David Thoms and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
This is a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the motor car and popular culture in the 20th century, which brings together original essays by academics in the UK, North America and Australia. The contributors write from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including semiotics, social history, literary and film criticism, and musicology. Three main themes are addressed: the car as a cultural image; its impact on leisure and entertainment; and the cultural significance of the processes of manufacturing and selling cars.
The Automobile And American Culture
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Author : David Lanier Lewis
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1983
The Automobile And American Culture written by David Lanier Lewis 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 1983 with Automobiles categories.
Presents essays on all phases of the American automobile industry and the effect of its product on individual lives and the culture of the society.
The Buddha S Middle Way As A Vehicle Of Culture
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Author : David J. Kalupahana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988*
The Buddha S Middle Way As A Vehicle Of Culture written by David J. Kalupahana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988* with categories.
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.
Vehicles Of Transmission Translation And Transformation In Medieval Textual Culture
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Author : Robert Wisnovsky
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2011
Vehicles Of Transmission Translation And Transformation In Medieval Textual Culture written by Robert Wisnovsky and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Europe categories.
In this volume the McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures and their collaborators initiate a new reflection on the dynamics involved in receiving texts and ideas from antiquity or from other contemporary cultures. For all their historic specificity, the western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish civilizations of the Middle Ages were nonetheless co-participants in a complex web of cultural transmission that operated via translation and inevitably involved the transformation of what had been received. This three-fold process is what defines medieval intellectual history. Every act of transmission presumes the existence of some 'efficient cause' - a translation, a commentary, a book, a library, etc. Such vehicles of transmission, however, are not passive containers in which cultural products are transported. On the contrary: the vehicles themselves select, shape, and transform the material transmitted, making ancient or alien cultural products usable and attractive in another milieu. The case studies contained in this volume attempt to bring these larger processes into the foreground.They lay the groundwork for a new intellectual history of medieval civilizations in all their variety, based on the core premise that these shared not only a cultural heritage from antiquity but, more importantly, a broadly comparable 'operating system' for engaging with that heritage.Each was a culture of transmission, claiming ownership over the prestigious knowledge inherited from the past. Each depended on translation. Finally, each transformed what it appropriated.
Artifacts
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Author : Pam M. Lange-Murillo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Artifacts written by Pam M. Lange-Murillo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
For Love Of The Automobile
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Author : Wolfgang Sachs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-12-22
For Love Of The Automobile written by Wolfgang Sachs 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 2023-12-22 with History categories.
In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead, Sachs examines the history of the automobile from the late 1880s until today for evidence on the nature of dreams and desires embedded in modern culture. Written in a lively style and illustrated by a wealth of cartoons, advertisements, newspaper stories, and propaganda, this book explores the nature of Germany's love affair with the automobile. A "history of our desires" for speed, wealth, violence, glamour, progress, and power—as refracted through images of the automobile—it is at once fascinating and provocative. Sachs recounts the development of the automobile industry and the impact on German society of the marketing and promotion of the motor car. As cars became more affordable and more common after World War II, advertisers fanned the competition for status, refining their techniques as ownership became ever more widespread. Sachs concludes by demonstrating that the triumphal procession of private motorization has in fact become an intrusion. The grand dreams once attached to the automobile have aged. Sachs appeals for the cultivation of new dreams born of the futility of the old ones, dreams of "a society liberated from progress," in which location, distance, and speed are reconceived in more appropriately humane dimensions.
In The Company Of Cars
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Author : Sarah Redshaw
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-09-29
In The Company Of Cars written by Sarah Redshaw and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with Business & Economics categories.
It has long been accepted that the social and cultural meanings of the car far exceed the practical need for mobility. This book marks the first attempt to contribute to road safety, considering, in depth, these meanings and the cultures of driving that are shaped by them. In the Company of Cars examines the perspectives that young people have on cars, and explores the broader social and cultural meanings of the car, the potential it is supposed to fulfil, and the anticipated benefits it offers to young drivers. From focus-group research conducted in Australia, the book takes up the views of young people on a range of topics, from media to car use to gender performance. The author looks at the ways in which driving has been defined by articulations of the car that emphasize valued features of the car-driver, such as gender, youthfulness, status, age, power, raciness, sexiness, ruggedness and competitiveness. The book takes a global perspective on mobility, considering the impact of cars and road safety policy on quality of life, and the value and significance of other modes of travel, in a range of countries.
The Effect Of Culture On Energy Efficient Vehicle Ownership
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Author : Massimo Filippini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Effect Of Culture On Energy Efficient Vehicle Ownership written by Massimo Filippini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
We provide an empirical analysis on the relation between culture and revealed environmental economic preferences. Switzerland's citizens share all major institutions but belong to multiple population groups which differ by culture and language across distinct geographical locations. This unique setting allows us to disentangle the effect of culture on individual consumer preferences from institutional characteristics. We use a spatial fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) at the internal French/German language border on municipality level data to estimate the effect of culture on preferences for energy efficient vehicle design. Our results indicate that French speaking municipalities have a 5.5 percentage points higher share of energy efficient vehicles compared to their German counterparts. In addition, we find that popular votes on environmental issues receive a substantially higher share of approval in French speaking regions. This indicates that they place a higher value on the environment, which may be due to a higher sense of collectivism and altruism.