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Transportation and the culture of climate change : accelerating ride to global crisis / editor, Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Energy and society.
- Energy and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects.
- Transportation, Automotive.
- Transportation, Automotive--Environmental aspects.
- Transportation--Social aspects.
- Transportation.
- Transportation--Environmental aspects.
- Petroleum as fuel--Social aspects.
- Petroleum as fuel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown, WV : West Virginia University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material, logistical question but as a phenomenon mediated by culture, the book interrogates popular assumptions deeply entangled with energy choices. Rethinking transportation, the contributors argue, necessarily involves fundamental understandings of consumption, freedom, and self"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I: Mobility and the Environment: Using Heritage and Ecological Systems Thinking to Inform Resilient Automobility Design / Barry L. Stiefel
- Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar American Transportation Culture and the Legacy of Moving Images / James Longhurst
- E-Scooters and the Urban Micromobility Revolution / Matthew C. Swanson
- Part II: Car Cultures: "Carbolization": Cars, Carbon Emissions, and the Global Discipline of Automobility / Gordon M. Sayre
- Hydrocarbon Enslavement and Fantasies of Freedom / Patrick D. Murphy
- Suicide Machines: Bruce Springsteen, Ballard, and Broken Heroes on a Last Chance Power Drive / David LaRocca
- Remainders of the Fossil Regime: Automobility Regression in Three Post-Apocalyptic Novels / Brent Ryan Bellamy
- Part III: Film, Energy, and Climate Change: Intermodal Aesthetics and the Otherwise of Cargo / Megan Hayes and Jeff Diamanti
- Nature Guarding "Her Treasures" in Oil Comedies: The Case of Local Hero and Fubar: Balls to the Wall / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
- Boom/Bust: Tragic Logistics and Accelerationist Comedy in Petroleum Transport / C. Parker Krieg
- Trafficking in Petronormativities: At the Intersections of Petrofeminism, Petrocolonialism, and Petrocapitalism / Sheena Wilson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781949199635
- 1949199630
- OCLC:
- 1190724776
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