Jeremy Packer

Mobility Without Mayhem

Safety, Cars, and Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822339526
• ISBN-10: 0822339528
• Artikelnr.: 23368321

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Packer is Associate Professor of Communication and a faculty member in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media graduate program and the Science, Technology, and Society program at North Carolina State University. He is a coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality and Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Auto-Mobile America 1
1. The Crusade for Traffic Safety: Mobilizing the Suburban Dream 27
2. Hitching the Highway to Hell: Media Hysterics and the Politics of Youth
Mobility 77
3. Motorcycle Madness: The Insane, the Profane, and Newly Tame 111
4. Communications Convoy: The CB and Truckers 161
5. Of Cadillacs and "Coon Cages": The Racing of Automobility 189
6. Raging with a Machine: Neoliberalism Meets the Automobile 231
7. Safety to Security: Future Orientations of Automobility 267
Notes 293
Works Cited 325
Index 341