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Title Car cultures / edited by Daniel Miller.

Imprint Oxford, [England] : Berg, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.46 C175    ---  Available
Description xiv, 250 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Series Materializing culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Driven societies / Daniel Miller -- Life and death of cars : private vehicles on the Pitjanjatjara Lands, South Australia / Diana Young -- Invisible car : the cultural purification of road rage / Mike Michael -- Driving while Black / Paul Gilroy -- Raggare and the panic of mobility : modernity and hybridity in Sweden / Tom O'Dell -- Driving, drinking and daring in Norway / Pauline Garvey -- Kwaku's car : the struggles and stories of a Ghanaian long-distance taxi-driver / Jojada Verrips and Birgit Meyer -- Soundscapes of the car : a critical ethnography of automobile habitation / Michael Bull -- Negotiating car use in everyday life / Simon Maxwell -- Colonizing vehicle / Gertrude Stotz.
Subject Automobiles -- Social aspects.
Added Author Miller, Daniel, 1954-
ISBN 1859734073 (pbk.)
185973412X

 
    
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