Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
Title | Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety PDF eBook |
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Release | 2001 |
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Mobility Without Mayham
Title | Mobility Without Mayham PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Scott Packer |
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Pages | 542 |
Release | 2001 |
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Mobility Without Mayhem
Title | Mobility Without Mayhem PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Packer |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2008-02-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822339632 |
DIVA cultural studies account of automobiles and concerns about safety in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present./div
One Less Car
Title | One Less Car PDF eBook |
Author | Zack Furness |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2010-03-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781592136148 |
The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.
Mobility without Mayhem
Title | Mobility without Mayhem PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Packer |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2008-02-26 |
Genre | 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.
Mobility without mayhem
Title | Mobility without mayhem PDF eBook |
Author | US Pres TF Highway Safety |
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Conspiracy Panics
Title | Conspiracy Panics PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Z. Bratich |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2008-02-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791473344 |
Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.