Mobility without Mayhem
Safety, Cars, and Citizenship
1st Edition
Published on 26. February 2008
360 pages
978-0-8223-8890-6 (ISBN)
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A cultural studies account of automobiles and concerns about safety in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present.
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Jeremy Packer is Associate Professor of Communication and a faculty member in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media graduate program and the Science, Technology, and Society program at North Carolina State University. He is a coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality and Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Auto-Mobile America 1
1. The Crusade for Traffic Safety: Mobilizing the Suburban Dream 27
2. Hitching the Highway to Hell: Media Hysterics and the Politics of Youth Mobility 77
3. Motorcycle Madness: The Insane, the Profane, and Newly Tame 111
4. Communications Convoy: The CB and Truckers 161
5. Of Cadillacs and "Coon Cages": The Racing of Automobility 189
6. Raging with a Machine: Neoliberalism Meets the Automobile 231
7. Safety to Security: Future Orientations of Automobility 267
Notes 293
Works Cited 325
Index 341
Introduction: Auto-Mobile America 1
1. The Crusade for Traffic Safety: Mobilizing the Suburban Dream 27
2. Hitching the Highway to Hell: Media Hysterics and the Politics of Youth Mobility 77
3. Motorcycle Madness: The Insane, the Profane, and Newly Tame 111
4. Communications Convoy: The CB and Truckers 161
5. Of Cadillacs and "Coon Cages": The Racing of Automobility 189
6. Raging with a Machine: Neoliberalism Meets the Automobile 231
7. Safety to Security: Future Orientations of Automobility 267
Notes 293
Works Cited 325
Index 341
