Packer focuses on cultural figures that have been singled out as particularly dangerous. Women drivers, hot-rodders, bikers, hitchhikers, truckers, those who “drive while black,” and road ragers have all been targets of fear. As Packer debunks claims about the dangers posed by each figure, he exposes biases against marginalized populations, anxieties about social change, and commercial and political desires to profit by fomenting fear. Certain populations have been labeled as dangerous or deviant, he argues, to legitimize monitoring and regulation and, ultimately, to curtail access to automotive mobility. Packer reveals how the boundary between personal freedom and social constraint is continually renegotiated in discussions about safe, proper driving.
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Jeremy Packer is Associate Professor of Communication and a faculty member in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media graduate program and the Science, Technology, and Society program at North Carolina State University. He is a coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality and Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History.
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed about what constitutes safe, decorous driving and who is capable of it. This title presents a cultural history of America's fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Num Pages: 360 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504. . 2008. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . Codice articolo V9780822339632