Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change - Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis (Paperback)

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. The essays in Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change cover an eclectic range of subject matter, from the association of bicycles with childhood to the songs of Bruce Springsteen, but are united in a central conviction: "Transport is a considerable part of our culture that is as hard to transform as it is for us to stop using fossil fuels - but we do not have an alternative.

General

Imprint:	West Virginia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Energy and Society
Release date:	September 2020
Editors:	Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-1-949199-64-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Transport planning & policy > General Books > Philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	1-949199-64-9
Barcode:	9781949199642

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