... in control of the wheel. Female teens also drove, and the car became for many women early in the twentieth century, a mark of liberation; but more common was the identification of the machine and automobility with the male. This culture of customizing and souping up had its roots quite naturally in the world...

... Kokëdhima Persefoni Naipi Bule immobility of the Albanian population Riza Emin Boulevard 18 Gjirokastër poverty xhiro pyramid investment schemes money perceptions of remittances automobility social formations urban sectors socialist and postsocialist mobility of Albanian society Urban Spaces...

... of therapeutic potential of driving Fowler James W Bakhtin Mikhail Husserl Edmund memory phenomenology sanity role of driving in preservation of automobility cruising drivetime Los Angeles Freeways motorway driving driving as therapy meditation Neil Young Joan Didion Reyner Banham Walk across any...

...Automobility – inclusive of both the physical and cultural aspects of the practice of private ownership and use of automobiles – shapes modern life the world over. Automobility generates a flexible source of mobility, privacy, and independence that is often central to the contemporary conception...

...-inventor on his first patent), and his move away from the coalition model in favor of individual investors, including patent speculator George P. Koelliker and financier George D. Hamilton. The chapter places Headen’s activities in the context of growing African American automobility, the history of bi...

... David-Fox as a transnational history of “entangled modernities.” Finally, it looks at the socialist car from another lens: “automobility”. Albania Kamm Henry Korea Democratic Republic of Mercedes Benz New York Times Tirana Dacia Lada socialism technology Trabant consumption Cooke Catherine...

...This chapter examines how planning for mobility, especially automobility, shaped designs for city centers in the USSR and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the 1960s. Taking the first All-Union Conference on Urban Planning held in Moscow in 1960, it traces the evolution of urbanist...

... preferential status to the Socialist Car over buses and the streetcar, and suggests that automobility failed to appear in provincial towns such as Naberezhnye Chelny during the Brezhnev era. cities KamAZ Lada motorization Naberezhnye Chelny Togliatti VAZ Volga Automobile Factory Brezhnev Leonid...

...This chapter examines the relationship of women to cars and society in Russia and the Soviet Union since 1990, with particular emphasis on questions of automobility, gender relations, women’s emancipation, daily life, and consumption. In order to understand car culture from a feminine perspective...

... accidents Adesokan Akin Cabral Amilcar moped Touré Samory automobility Mambety Djibril Diop Niang Magaya Niang Myriam Pfaff Françoise technology good life Mulvey Laura Gomes Flora congelés frozens Cotonou Benin crisis Loreau Dominique nation Odoutan Jean Peugeot Schwarz Roberto Teno...

... Curtis Jackson Gilroy Paul Haynes Jonathan Mercedes Benz mobility Okereke Afam rights Sheridan Jim United States automobility Burkina Faso capitalism citizens and citizenship commodities culture economy hip hop Maintain Olu Ouagadougou Burkina Faso Williams Raymond Barber Karin...

... between a series of contending needs. Provision is required that provides protection from the very real fears and dangers produced by the dominance of automobility. Simultaneously, this needs to be both inclusive and to send a message that all users are valuable. Yet both of these also need to recognise...

..., phenomenological, aesthetic, epistemological, and ecological dimensions of US petroleum consumption. The Yoknapatawpha road trip contests the ideology of modern automobility, its aura of freedom, mastery, and expansiveness, with an insistent emphasis on the contingencies of personal motoring: the accidents...

...The Great Gatsby, set during the age of automobility, and centering on a fatal accident, is replete with unintentional and intentional torts, including negligence, battery, alienation of affections, false imprisonment, and negligent homicide. Yet tort law is not even mentioned...

... engagements with coal and oil, with modern automobility and the road narrative, and with the profligate energies of the sun and the human animal, Fossil Fuel Faulkner explores nearly all of Faulkner’s novels and over a dozen of his short stories, and reveals the author to be one...

... of enhancing personal mobility and status. Certain features of automobility—shortages and privileges, waiting lists and lack of readily available credit, the inadequacy of streets and highways—prevailed across the Soviet Bloc. This collective history puts aside both ridicule and nostalgia in the interest...

...Postcolonial Automobility discusses how the automobile, with its promise of autonomous, unfettered mobility is a paradigmatic object through which one can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Though automobile ownership is among the lowest...

...This chapter discusses the history of the automobile industry and automobility in Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1968, with particular emphasis on the ideological and concrete development of the “people’s car.” It examines four moments of particular significance in the history of Czechoslovak...

... mobility in Hungary during the period 1956–1980 by focusing on the members of the salaried apparatus of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (HSWP). The chapter begins with a discussion of policies aimed at containing the rising costs of automobility and to put a stop to sneaking privatization...

...This chapter examines the interactions between urban planners, drivers, and market socialism in Belgrade, Yugoslavia’s capital city, during the period 1945–1972. More specifically, it considers the evolution in urban planners’ attitude toward automobility from the adoption of Belgrade’s first...