Road Scars - Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma

Road Scars uses mobile fieldwork, photography, and critical discourse analysis to show the complex and intriguing ways that these shrines not only work to mourn and remember individual crash victims but work to create a distinctive kind of momentary and mobile public among strangers driving by.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: What Are Car Crash Shrines Doing on the Roadside?

2 Trauma/Memory/Automobility

3 Making Places for Performing Road Trauma

4 Materializing Road Trauma

5 Performing Road Trauma

6 Interpellating a Knowing Motoring Public

7 Conclusion: Melancholy Remains

Bibliography

Index

About the Author/Photographer

About the author

Robert Matej Bednar is associate professor of communication atudies; chair, Strategic Planning + Budget Committee; and co-coordinator of the Situating Place Paideia Cluster, Southwestern University

Product details

• Authors: Robert Matej Bednar
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781538148334
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4833-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Place, Memory, Affect
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects