Globalizing Automobilism

Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900-1980
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-461-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult. Drawing on archival research as well as wide-ranging forays into popular culture, Mom reveals here the roots of the exuberance, excess, and danger that define modern automotive culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mom, Gijs

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Automobilindustrie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Fahrzeugtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Questioning the Car: Prolegomena for a Historical Analysis of Global Mobility New Perspectives, New Questions Looking Back: Emergence and Persistence of the Adventure Machine Extending Adventure: The Car as Possession and Status Symbol Producing Commodification: Status, Narcissism, and Self-Development Diversifying Automotive Identities: The Non-Hegemonic Self New Mobility Studies: Bodily Senses, The Car as Medium, and the Challenge of Representation The Trouble with Travel Writing: Meandering between Fictionality and Representation This Study: Sources and Terminology

Part I. Emergence and Persistence (Again): The Shaping of Mobility Layerdness beyond the West

Chapter 1. Modernizing without Automobilization: Subverting and Subalternizing Mobility History (1890–1945/1950) Imperialist Mobilities: Japan and the Modernization of Manchuria Urban Mobilities: The Rickshaw and the Motorization of Asian Cities Between Long March and Long-Haul: Rail and Road Network Building in China Dual Networks of Rails and Roads: The Modal Configuration in Other Asian Countries Migration, Colonialism and the Struggle between Rail and Road: The Case of Africa More than Modern: Constructing a Latin American Adventure Machine The Rest and the West: Subversive and Subaltern Mobilities?

Part II: Exuberance, with a Twist: Spreading the Gospel of Automobilism

Chapter 2. Fragmenting Automotive Adventure: Western Exuberant Automobilism and Middle-Class Guilt (1945–1973) “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan” A Multimedia Feast: Folk, Beat, Rock and Other Mobilities Motorizing the Worker: Fragmentation and Convergence of Western Car Cultures The Attack on Public Transport: Hegemonic Car Cultures in a Cold War Setting Experiencing the Car in a Fragmented Culture: Shifts in Autopoetic Adventures Songs and Movies: Rejuvenating the Adventure Machine in Popular Culture Flow Interrupted: Crash and the Systemic Aspects of Automobilism

Chapter 3. Layered Development: The Transnational Construction of a World Mobility System (1940s–1970s) What is ‘Layered Development’? Alternative Developments: Soviet Mobility and the Modernization of China and India Conceiving ‘Development’: Mobilizing the ‘Rest’ Mediating Modernization: Japan and Asian ‘Development’ Constructing ‘Circulation’: The IRF and the "Development" of Africa Developmentalism vs. Dependentismo: Latin American Mobilities and the Frustrations of Middle-Class Modernity Conclusions: Road, Rail, and Development

Layered, Fragmented, Subversive, Subaltern: Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mom, Gijs
Gijs Mom is Associate Professor emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology. His monograph Atlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895–1940, was published by Berghahn Books in 2015. He is a co-editor, with Georgine Clarsen and Mimi Sheller, of the Berghahn Books series “Explorations in Mobility.”