The car, and the range of social and political institutions
來源:香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk which sustain its dominance, play an important role in many of the
environmental problems faced by contemporary society. But in order
to understand the possibilities for moving towards sustainability
and ''greening cars'', it is first necessary to understand the
political forces that have made cars so dominant. This book
identifies these forces as a combination of political economy and
cultural politics. From the early twentieth century, the car became
central to the organization of capitalism and deeply embedded in
individual identities, providing people with a source of value and
meaning but in a way which was broadly consistent with social
imperatives for mobility. Projects for sustainability to reduce the
environmental impacts of cars are therefore constrained by these
forces but must deal with them in order to shape and achieve their
goals.
目錄:
1. Introduction: automobility, ecology, and global
politics
2. Automobility and its discontents
3. Don''t stop movin'': the pro-car backlash
4. Automobile political economy
5. The car''s cultural politics: producing the automobile
subject
6. Swampy fever, Mondeo man
7. Greening automobility?
8. Conclusions''.