Mobility without mayhem : safety, cars, and citizenship / Jeremy Packer.

Author/creator Packer, Jeremy, 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Descriptionix, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The crusade for traffic safety: mobilizing the suburban dream -- Hitching the highway to hell: media hysterics and the politics of youth mobility -- Motorcycle madness: the insane, profane, and newly tame -- Communications convoy: the CB and truckers -- Of Cadillacs and "coon cages": the racing of automobility -- Raging with a machine: neoliberalism meets the automobile -- Safety to security: future orientations of automobility.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-339) and index.
LCCN 2007038462
ISBN9780822339526 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822339528 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822339632 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822339633 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HE 5623 .P295 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold