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, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1136 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

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

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.”

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.”