Car Troubles: Critical Studies of Automobility and Auto-Mobility (Transport and Society) - Hardcover

Conley, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754677729 ISBN 13: 9780754677727

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized. It examines a wide range of issues that are central to automobility by situating it within social, economic, and political contexts, and by combining social theory, specific case studies and policy-oriented analysis. With an international team of contributors the book provides a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the global phenomenon of automobility from the Anglo world to the cases in China and Chile and all the elements that relate to it.

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Conley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. Arlene Tigar McLaren is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.

Review:

'This collection of lively and engaging studies drives home to devastating effect and from different political, material, cultural and social directions, the fundamental contradiction of the car; that it destroys the very environment it makes accessible.' Tim Dant, University of Lancaster, UK 'Car Troubles shows brilliantly how far we have come since Wolfgang Sachs claimed that the "problem with the automobile is that the automobile is not a problem". It gives rich, diverse insights into our problematisation of the car, and into the complex politics of dealing with the problems cars cause.' Matthew Paterson, University of Ottawa, Canada

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0754677729
• ISBN 13: 9780754677727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: McLaren Arlene Tigar