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.
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