Pacific Automobilism

Pacific Automobilism

Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970-2015

Mom, Gijs

Berghahn Books

09/2022

1002

Dura

Inglês

9781800735637

15 a 20 dias

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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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Transport Studies, History: 20th Century to Present, Mobility Studies