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Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change : Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis /

"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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Prorokova, Tatiana (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Energy and society.
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Table des matières:
  • Part I: Mobility and the Environment: Using Heritage and Ecological Systems Thinking to Inform Resilient Automobility Design / Barry L. Stiefel
  • Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar American Transportation Culture and the Legacy of Moving Images / James Longhurst
  • E-Scooters and the Urban Micromobility Revolution / Matthew C. Swanson
  • Part II: Car Cultures: "Carbolization": Cars, Carbon Emissions, and the Global Discipline of Automobility / Gordon M. Sayre
  • Hydrocarbon Enslavement and Fantasies of Freedom / Patrick D. Murphy
  • Suicide Machines: Bruce Springsteen, Ballard, and Broken Heroes on a Last Chance Power Drive / David LaRocca
  • Remainders of the Fossil Regime: Automobility Regression in Three Post-Apocalyptic Novels / Brent Ryan Bellamy
  • Part III: Film, Energy, and Climate Change: Intermodal Aesthetics and the Otherwise of Cargo / Megan Hayes and Jeff Diamanti
  • Nature Guarding "Her Treasures" in Oil Comedies: The Case of Local Hero and Fubar: Balls to the Wall / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
  • Boom/Bust: Tragic Logistics and Accelerationist Comedy in Petroleum Transport / C. Parker Krieg
  • Trafficking in Petronormativities: At the Intersections of Petrofeminism, Petrocolonialism, and Petrocapitalism / Sheena Wilson.