Robert Matej Bednar

Road Scars

Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Road Scars uses mobile fieldwork, photography, and critical discourse analysis to show the complex and intriguing ways that these shrines not only work to mourn and remember individual crash victims but work to create a distinctive kind of momentary and mobile public among strangers driving by.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781538148334
• ISBN-10: 1538148331
• Artikelnr.: 63595436

Autorenporträt

Robert Matej Bednar is associate professor of communication atudies; chair, Strategic Planning + Budget Committee; and co-coordinator of the Situating Place Paideia Cluster, Southwestern University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: What Are Car Crash Shrines Doing on the Roadside?
2 Trauma/Memory/Automobility
3 Making Places for Performing Road Trauma
4 Materializing Road Trauma
5 Performing Road Trauma
6 Interpellating a Knowing Motoring Public
7 Conclusion: Melancholy Remains
Bibliography
Index
About the Author/Photographer