Zack Furness

One Less Car

Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Sporting
• Verlag: Temple University Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781592136131
• ISBN-10: 1592136133
• Artikelnr.: 28898042

Autorenporträt

Zack Furness is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago and a member of the Bad Subjects collective. 

Inhaltsangabe

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