Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has
emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its
most dominant forms, automobility, has remained largely ignored.
Edited by three leading social analysts, Automobilities presents
one of the first and most wide-ranging examinations of the car and
its promise of autonomy and mobility. Drawing on rich empirical
detail, from ethnographies of office work on the motorway to the
important of the car in French cultural theory, the contributions
demonstrate just how significant have been the economic,
technological, social and political consequences of a pervasive and
accelerating culture of the car.
A broad array of theories are put to work to illuminate this
vast and yet neglected topic: strategy and tactics, complexity
theory, performativity, actor network theory, film theory, material
culture, theories of non-places, embodiment, sensuous
geography/sociology, ethnomethodology and non-representational
theory.
This book will firmly establish automobilities as a key topic
for theory and research. Automobilities represents a landmark text
that will contribute to and provide a significant impetus for the
emerging analysis of mobilities in contemporary societies.
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