Part I: Mobility and the Environment: Using Heritage and Ecological Systems Thinking to Inform Resilient Automobility Design / Barry L. Stiefel -- Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar American Transportation Culture and the Legacy of Moving Images / James Longhurst -- E-Scooters and the Urban Micromobility Revolution / Matthew C. Swanson -- Part II: Car Cultures: "Carbolization": Cars, Carbon Emissions, and the Global Discipline of Automobility / Gordon M. Sayre -- Hydrocarbon Enslavement and Fantasies of Freedom / Patrick D. Murphy -- Suicide Machines: Bruce Springsteen, Ballard, and Broken Heroes on a Last Chance Power Drive / David LaRocca -- Remainders of the Fossil Regime: Automobility Regression in Three Post-Apocalyptic Novels / Brent Ryan Bellamy -- Part III: Film, Energy, and Climate Change: Intermodal Aesthetics and the Otherwise of Cargo / Megan Hayes and Jeff Diamanti -- Nature Guarding "Her Treasures" in Oil Comedies: The Case of Local Hero and Fubar: Balls to the Wall / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann -- Boom/Bust: Tragic Logistics and Accelerationist Comedy in Petroleum Transport / C. Parker Krieg -- Trafficking in Petronormativities: At the Intersections of Petrofeminism, Petrocolonialism, and Petrocapitalism / Sheena Wilson."This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material, logistical question but as a phenomenon mediated by culture, the book interrogates popular assumptions deeply entangled with energy choices. Rethinking transportation, the contributors argue, necessarily involves fundamental understandings of consumption, freedom, and self"--


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    Titel :

    Transportation and the culture of climate change : accelerating ride to global crisis


    Beteiligte:
    Konrad, Tatiana (Herausgeber:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020


    Format / Umfang :

    VI, 268 Seiten



    Medientyp :

    Buch


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    BKL:    83.72 / 43.62
    DDC:    303.48/32
    RVK:    ZH 9348



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