One Less Car - Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

Informationen zum Autor Zack Furness is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago and a member of the Bad Subjects collective.  Klappentext Discusses the power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life Zusammenfassung Examines what it means historically! culturally! socioeconomically! and politically to be a bicycle transportation advocate/activist. Presenting an underground subculture of bike enthusiasts who aggressively resist car culture! this book maps out the cultural trajectories between mobility! technology! urban space and everyday life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1 Introductions and Intersections 2 Becoming Auto-Mobile 3 Vélorutionaries and the Right to the (Bikeable) City 4 Critical Mass and the Functions of Bicycle Protest 5 Two-Wheeled Terrors and Forty-Year-Old Virgins: Mass Media and the Representation of Bicycling 6 DIY Bike Culture 7 Handouts, Hand Ups, or Just Lending a Hand? Community Bike Projects, Bicycle Aid, and Competing Visions of Development under Globalization 8 Conclusion, or "We Have Nothing to Lose but Our (Bike) Chains" Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Zack Furness
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2010
• EAN: 9781592136124
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-612-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Sporting; Sporting (Temple University Pr; Sporting; Sporting (Temple University Pr
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education