Automobility and national identity: Representation, geography and driving practice

Article Abstract:

A focus on the transmission by cultural elites of authoritative culture, invented traditions and folk customs of the nation and national identity are accounted. It is suggested that the national is increasing located in the everyday and in the realm of popular culture, far more so than in 'high' and 'official' form of culture. The role of iconic models, mundane motorscapes and the everyday, habitual performances of driving are explored in the light to explain national automobilities.

United Kingdom, Motor vehicles and car bodies, Automobiles, Automobile Manufacturing, India, Usage

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The driver-car

Article Abstract:

The argument that the cars are combined with their drivers into an assemblage, the 'driver-car', which has become a form of social being that brings about distinctive social actions in modern society-driving, transporting, parking, consuming, polluting, killing, and communicating is elaborated. A number of theoretical perspectives that describe the interaction and collaboration between human being and complex objects are explored.

Public affairs, Social aspects

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Doing office work on the motorway

Article Abstract:

The motorway is considered seriously as a place where the society of traffic can be found and studied. The way this mobile society is naturally organized as an architectural configuration brought to life in the practices of driving in the traffic is examined. The overlooked phenomena that are orderly stable features of being mobile are analyzed.

Motor Vehicle Transport, Truck Transportation, Management dynamics, Analysis, Automotive transportation, Practice, Transportation, Automotive

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