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One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility: Sporting

Autor Zack Furness
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2010
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781592136131
ISBN-10: 1592136133
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Seria Sporting


Recenzii

"One Less Car is a serious update and expansion of the social and political history of bicycling. I would own this book for the notes and bibliography alone." 
Robert Hurst, author of The Cyclist's Manifesto and The Art of Cycling

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

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