The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility

The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility
Author: Alan Walks
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-07-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781317659686

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Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among cities and nations? Can our cities be made more sustainable, and can environmental, economic and social collapse be staved off through changes in urban form and travel behaviour? How might rising indebtedness and the recent series of financial crises be related to automobile dependence and patterns of urban automobile use? To what extent does the system and economy of automobility factor in the production of urban socio-spatial inequalities, and how might these inequalities in mobility be understood and measured? What can we learn from the politics of mobility and social movements within cities? What is the role of automobility, and auto-dependence, in differentiating groups, both within cities and rural areas, and among transnational migrants moving across international borders? These are just some of the questions this book addresses. This volume provides a holistic and reflexive account of the role played by automobility in producing, reproducing, and differentiating social, economic and political life in the contemporary city, as well as the role played by the city in producing and reproducing auto-mobile inequalities. The first section, titled Driving Vulnerability, deals with issues of global importance related to economic, social, financial, and environmental sustainability and resilience, and socialization. The second section, Driving Inequality, is concerned with understanding the role played by automobility in producing urban socio-spatial inequalities, including those rooted in accessibility to work, migration status and ethnic concentration, and new measures of mobility-based inequality derived from the concept of effective speed. The third section, titled, Driving Politics, explores the politics of mobility in particular places, with an eye to demonstrating both the relevance of the politics of mobility for influencing and reinforcing actually existing neoliberalisms, and the kinds of politics that might allow for reform or restructuring of the auto-mobile city into one that is more socially, politically and environmentally just. In the conclusion to the book Walks draws on the findings of the other chapters to comment on the relationship between automobility, neoliberalism and citizenship, and to lay out strategies for dealing with the urban car system.

Automobile Politics

Automobile Politics
Author: Matthew Paterson
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-07-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: UOM:39076002669419

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Examines the role of the car in contemporary society and its contribution to environmental problems.

Automobile Politics

Automobile Politics
Author: Matthew Paterson
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2007-07-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: STANFORD:36105123390788

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Examines the role of the car in contemporary society and its contribution to environmental problems.

The Ecology of the Automobile

The Ecology of the Automobile
Author: Peter E. S. Freund,George T. Martin
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1993
Genre: Automobile industry and trade
ISBN: UOM:39015034410194

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Examines the central role that auto production and consumption have played in the twentieth century: as a technological system with major impacts on public policy, land use, cultural patterns, social relations, community, natural resources, environmental quality, and options for spatial mobility.

The Political Economy of Urban Transportation

The Political Economy of Urban Transportation
Author: Delbert A. Taebel,James V. Cornehls
Publsiher: Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1977
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: STANFORD:36105037068082

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Pacific Automobilism

Pacific Automobilism
Author: Gijs Mom
Publsiher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 1002
Release: 2022-09-13
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781800735644

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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.

Radio and Social Transformation in China

Radio and Social Transformation in China
Author: Wei Lei
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780429017841

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The first systematic, comprehensive and critical English-language study of radio in China, this book documents a historical understanding of Chinese radio from the early twentieth century to the present. Covering both public matters and private lives, Radio and Social Transformation in China analyses a range of themes from healthcare, migration and education, to intimacy, family and friendship. Through a concentrated and thorough scrutiny of a variety of new genres and radio practices in post-Mao China, it also investigates the interaction between radio and social change, particularly in the era of economic reform. Building on the core theoretical concept of ‘compressed modernity’, each of the radio genres explored is shown to embody China’s efforts to achieve modernity, while simultaneously exemplifying radio’s capacity to manage the challenges that have arisen from the country’s distinctive and perhaps unique process of modernization. Written in an engaging style, this book makes an important contribution to radio history internationally. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of broadcast media, radio and Communication Studies, as well as Chinese culture and society.

White Skin Black Fuel

White Skin  Black Fuel
Author: Andreas Malm,The Zetkin Collective
Publsiher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781839761744

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Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet? In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down. Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.