Mobility Without Mayhem
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Author |
: Jeremy Packer |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2008-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822339633 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822339632 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility Without Mayhem by : Jeremy Packer
DIVA cultural studies account of automobiles and concerns about safety in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present./div
Author |
: Jeremy Packer |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2008-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822388906 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822388901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility without Mayhem by : Jeremy Packer
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.
Author |
: US Pres TF Highway Safety |
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Total Pages |
: |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:84568586 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility without mayhem by : US Pres TF Highway Safety
Author |
: United States. President's task force on highway safety |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 58 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:822729149 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility Without Mayhem by : United States. President's task force on highway safety
Author |
: États-Unis. President's task force on highway safety |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 58 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:462254676 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility Without Mayhem by : États-Unis. President's task force on highway safety
Author |
: Pamela Robertson Wojcik |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2024-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520390379 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520390377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unhomed by : Pamela Robertson Wojcik
In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed—characters who fail, resist, or opt out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the silent era to the 2021 Oscar-winning Nomadland, Wojcik reveals a tension in the American imaginary between viewing homelessness as deviant and threatening or emblematic of freedom and independence. Blending social history with insights drawn from a complex array of films, both canonical and fringe, Wojcik effectively "unhomes" dominant narratives that cast aspirations for success and social mobility as the focus of American cinema, reminding us that genres of precarity have been central to American cinema (and the American story) all along.
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Total Pages |
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Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:931696227 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety by :
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Total Pages |
: 58 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:84568586 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility Without Mayhem. The Report of the President's Task Force on Highway Safety by :
Author |
: Daniel E Agbiboa |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2022-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472129782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472129783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency by : Daniel E Agbiboa
In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency, Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary perspective on the centrality of mobility to the strategies of insurgents, state security forces, and civilian populations caught in conflict. Drawing on one of the world’s deadliest insurgencies, the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, this well-crafted and richly nuanced intervention offers fresh insights into how violent extremist organizations exploit forms of local immobility and border porosity to mobilize new recruits, how the state’s “war on terror” mobilizes against so-called subversive mobilities, and how civilian populations in transit are treated as could-be terrorists and subjected to extortion and state-sanctioned violence en route. The multiple and intersecting flows analyzed here upend Eurocentric representations of movement in Africa as one-sided, anarchic, and dangerous. Instead, this book underscores the contradictions of mobility in conflict zones as simultaneously a resource and a burden. Intellectually rigorous yet clear, engaging, and accessible, Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency is a seminal contribution that lays bare the neglected linkages between conflict and mobility.
Author |
: Peter Merriman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415593564 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415593565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobility, Space, and Culture by : Peter Merriman
Over the past 10 to 15 years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. Here, Peter Merriman provides a contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to rethink the relationship between movement, embodied practices, space and place.