Congestion - Rationalising Automobility in the Face of Climate Change

The book investigates the negotiation of governmental rationalities of car-dependent life in the face of climate change. It appears that current forms of governing are bound up with a specific utilisation of the freedom of the governed. Accordingly, the book demonstrates how the governing of automobility unfolds as people account for and, hence, conduct their transportation practices. In this way, it unravels how villagers in a small Danish village negotiate a municipal strategy and conduct their transportation practices in ways that merely sustain the villagers' already maintained car-dependent life forms.

List of contents

Contents: Negotiation of governmental rationalities - Car-dependent life - Climate change - Denmark - Municipal strategy.

About the author

Laura Bang Lindegaard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies and a member of the Centre for Discourses in Transition at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is interested in the governing of climate change and the moral ordering of everyday transportation practices.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Bang Lindegaard
• Assisted by: Martin Bak Jorgensen (Editor), Óscar García Agustín (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783631666630
• ISBN: 978-3-631-66663-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 380 g
• Series: Political and Social Change; Political and Social Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories