Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mobility without MayhemCondition: NewSubtitle: Safety, Cars, and CitizenshipISBN-10: 0822339633EAN: 9780822339632ISBN: 9780822339632Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/26/2008Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Jeremy PackerGenre: Society & CultureItem Weight: 503gType: TextbookRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Mobility without Mayhem
Title: Mobility without Mayhem
Subtitle: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship
ISBN-10: 0822339633
EAN: 9780822339632
ISBN: 9780822339632
Release Date: 02/26/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Type: Textbook
Book Title: Mobility Without Mayhem : Safety, Cars, and Citizenship
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Topic: Automotive / History, United States / 20th Century, Automotive / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Transportation, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Author: Jeremy Packer
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Perfect
