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Author:   Arve Hansen ,  Kenneth Nielsen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138930704

ISBN 10:   1138930709
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   15 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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PART I: Introduction 1. Wheels of Change: Cars, automobility and development in Asia PART II: Driving Development: Car Industries and National Development 2. Comparative Policies for Automotive Development in Southeast Asia 3. The Asian Automotive Industry and Labour Organising 4. Revolution or Evolution? The Making of the Automobile Sector as a Key Industry in Mid-20th Century India 5. Proton – Malaysia’s National Car Project: Between Success and Failure? PART III: Contested Car Cultures: Consuming Automobility 6. Doi Moi on Two and Four Wheels: Capitalist Development and Motorised Mobility in Vietnam 7. Transport and Mobility: The Filipino Via Crucis 8. The Shared Road: Cars, Pedestrians, and Bicyclists in Japan 9. Car Crazy: The Rise of Car Culture in China10. The Rise and Fall of the ‘People’s Car’: Middle-Class Aspirations, Status and Mobile Symbolism in ‘New India’ 10. The Rise and Fall of the ‘People’s Car’: Middle-Class Aspirations, Status and Mobile Symbolism in ‘New India’

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Arve Hansen is Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway Kenneth Bo Nielsen is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

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