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 Zack Furness is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago and a member of the Bad Subjects collective.¿ 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2010
• EAN: 9781592136131
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-613-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Sporting; Sporting (Temple University Pr; Sporting
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education