Home -> Title
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Questioning the Car: Prolegomena for a Historical Analysis of Global Mobility
New Perspectives, New Questions
Looking Back: Emergence and Persistence of the Adventure Machine
Extending Adventure: The Car as Possession and Status Symbol
Producing Commodification: Status, Narcissism, and Self-Development
Diversifying Automotive Identities: The Non-Hegemonic Self
New Mobility Studies: Bodily Senses, The Car as Medium, and the Challenge of Representation
The Trouble with Travel Writing: Meandering between Fictionality and Representation
This Study: Sources and Terminology
Part I. Emergence and Persistence (Again): The Shaping of Mobility Layerdness beyond the West
Chapter 1. Modernizing without Automobilization: Subverting and Subalternizing Mobility History (1890–1945/1950)
Imperialist Mobilities: Japan and the Modernization of Manchuria
Urban Mobilities: The Rickshaw and the Motorization of Asian Cities
Between Long March and Long-Haul: Rail and Road Network Building in China
Dual Networks of Rails and Roads: The Modal Configuration in Other Asian Countries
Migration, Colonialism and the Struggle between Rail and Road: The Case of Africa
More than Modern: Constructing a Latin American Adventure Machine
The Rest and the West: Subversive and Subaltern Mobilities?
Part II: Exuberance, with a Twist: Spreading the Gospel of Automobilism
Chapter 2. Fragmenting Automotive Adventure: Western Exuberant Automobilism and Middle-Class Guilt (1945–1973)
“Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan”
A Multimedia Feast: Folk, Beat, Rock and Other Mobilities
Motorizing the Worker: Fragmentation and Convergence of Western Car Cultures
The Attack on Public Transport: Hegemonic Car Cultures in a Cold War Setting
Experiencing the Car in a Fragmented Culture: Shifts in Autopoetic Adventures
Songs and Movies: Rejuvenating the Adventure Machine in Popular Culture
Flow Interrupted: Crash and the Systemic Aspects of Automobilism
Chapter 3. Layered Development: The Transnational Construction of a World Mobility System (1940s–1970s)
What is ‘Layered Development’?
Alternative Developments: Soviet Mobility and the Modernization of China and India
Conceiving ‘Development’: Mobilizing the ‘Rest’
Mediating Modernization: Japan and Asian ‘Development’
Constructing ‘Circulation’: The IRF and the "Development" of Africa
Developmentalism vs. Dependentismo: Latin American Mobilities and the Frustrations of Middle-Class Modernity
Conclusions: Road, Rail, and Development
Layered, Fragmented, Subversive, Subaltern: Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Globalizing Automobilism
Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980
Gijs Mom
688 pages, 23 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-461-2 Hb Published (August 2020)
eISBN 978-1-78920-462-9 eBook