Overview

The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West's media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an 'adventure machine' seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car's status character.

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Author:   Gijs Mom
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800735637

ISBN 10:   1800735634
Pages:   1002
Publication Date:   13 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: 'Pacific Mobility': Irony, Class and the Car as Medium Part I: Doom, for Some? Questioning the Car Chapter 1. The Shock of the Oil: Energy and the Carnival of Mass-Produced Car Adventure (1970s-1990) Introduction: A Postmodern Automotive Adventure? Western Mobilities: Energy, Environment and the Middle Classes Banalizing the Automotive Adventure: Highbrow Automotive Culture The Revival of Automotive Adventure: The Car in Western Popular Culture The Limits of Mobility Growth: The Urban Crisis Globalizing Environmental Consciousness: Towards a Pacific Century Conclusions: Beyond a Nihilistic Automotive Adventure? Part II: Confusion: Where Is the Adventure? Chapter 2. The Motorization Miracle: The Quest of the Rest (1990-2015) Neoliberalizing Mobility: Introduction Opening up: Motorizing the Chinese Middle Class On the Road to Hyperautomobility? Turn of the Millennium 'Development' through Motorization in the Rest of the World Neoliberal Mobility: Automotive Adventure, Ecological Concerns and 'the War on the Car' Conclusions Chapter 3. The Adventure Machine Redux? Searching for the Motives of the Neoliberal Motorist From the 'West' to the 'Rest': Introduction Parallel Worlds: Post-Postmodern Reflections on a New Multi-Modal Mobility Culture Emancipatory Mobilities: Adventures Produced by Women, Ethnic Minorities and Working-Class Youth Carnivalizing Adventure: Popular Culture and the Shifting Class Base of the Adventure Machine Bipolar Dichotomies: Diasporic Mobilities between South and North Provincializing Adventure: The Commodity Character of the Car in Heavily Layered Mobility Billionaires, Brothers and Other Incarnations: Car Adventure and Family in China The Loss of Automotive Irony: Conclusions Conclusion. 'Deplorable' Mobilities and the Future of the Car Adventure Bibliography Index

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Gijs Mom is Associate Professor emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is the author of Atlantic Automobilism (Berghahn Books, 2015) and Globalizing Automobilism (Berghahn Books, 2020). He is a co-editor, with Georgine Clarsen and Mimi Sheller, of the Berghahn Books series Explorations in Mobility.

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