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Road Scars
Author | : Robert Matej Bednar |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781786614148 |
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Despite the ubiquity of automobility, the reality of automotive death is hidden from everyday view. There are accident blackspots all over the roads that we use and go past every day but the people that have died there or been injured are not marked, unless by homemade shrines and personal memorialization. Nowhere on the planet is this practice as densely actioned as in the United States. Road Scars is a highly visual scholarly monograph about how roadside car crash shrines place the collective trauma of living in a car culture in the everyday landscapes of automobility. Roadside shrines—or road trauma shrines—are vernacular memorial assemblages built by private individuals at sites where family and friends have died in automobile accidents, either while driving cars or motorcycles or being hit by cars as pedestrians, bicyclists, or motorcyclists. Prevalent for decades in Latin America and in the American Southwest, roadside car crash shrines are now present throughout the U.S. and around the world. Some are simply small white crosses, almost silent markers of places of traumatic death. Others are elaborate collections of objects, texts, and materials from all over the map culturally and physically, all significantly brought together not in the home or in a cemetery but on the roadside, in drivable public space—a space where private individuals perform private identities alongside each other in public, and where these private mobilities sometimes collide with one another in traumatic ways that are negotiated in roadside shrines. This book touches on something many of us have seen, but few have explored intellectually.
Beautiful Scars
Author | : Tom Wilson |
Publsiher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780385685672 |
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"I'm scared and scarred but I’ve survived" Tom Wilson was raised in the rough-and-tumble world of Hamilton—Steeltown— in the company of World War II vets, factory workers, fall-guy wrestlers and the deeply guarded secrets kept by his parents, Bunny and George. For decades Tom carved out a life for himself in shadows. He built an international music career and became a father, he battled demons and addiction, and he waited, hoping for the lies to cease and the truth to emerge. It would. And when it did, it would sweep up the St. Lawrence River to the Mohawk reserves of Quebec, on to the heights of the Manhattan skyline. With a rare gift for storytelling and an astonishing story to tell, Tom writes with unflinching honesty and extraordinary compassion about his search for the truth. It's a story about scars, about the ones that hurt us, and the ones that make us who we are. From Beautiful Scars: Even as a kid my existence as the son of Bunny and George Wilson seemed far-fetched to me. When I went over it in my head, none of it added up. The other kids on East 36th Street in Hamilton used to tell me stories of their mothers being pregnant and their newborn siblings coming home from the hospital. Nobody ever talked about Bunny's and my return from the hospital. In my mind my birth was like the nativity, only with gnarly dogs and dirty snow and a chipped picket fence and old blind people with short tempers and dim lights, ashtrays full of Export Plain cigarette butts and bottles of rum. Once, when I was about four, I asked Bunny, "How come I don't look anything like you and George? How come you are old and the other moms are young?" "There are secrets I know about you that I’ll take to my grave," she responded. And that pretty well finished that. Bunny built up a wall to protect her secrets, and as a result I built a wall to protect myself.
Final Supplement to Final Environmental Statement
Author | : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Sacramento District |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : New Melones Lake (Calif.) |
ISBN | : UCR:31210025024975 |
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Grand Canyon Complex Proposed Wilderness Classification
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556030165989 |
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Lone Peak Wilderness Area
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Lone Peak Wilderness Area (Utah) |
ISBN | : UOM:39015078625095 |
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Hollister to Gilroy State Route 25 Widening and Route Adoption San Benito and Santa Clara Counties
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556039335294 |
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Proceedings of the County Board of Legislators of Westchester County N Y
Author | : Westchester County (N.Y.) County Board of Legislators |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Westchester County (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924078805862 |
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Helena National Forest N F Clancy Unionville Vegetation Manipulation and Travel Management Project
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556034539155 |
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