Pacific Automobilism : : Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970–2015 / / Gijs Mom.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Mom, Gijs,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1002 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction ‘Pacific Mobility’ Irony, Class, and the Car as Medium --; Part I Doom, for Some? Questioning the Car --; Chapter 1 The Shock of the Oil: Energy and the Carnival of Mass-Produced Car Adventure (1970s–1990) --; Part II Confusion: Where Is the Adventure? --; Chapter 2 The Motorization Miracle: The Quest of the Rest (1990–2015) --; Chapter 3 The Adventure Machine Redux? Searching for the Motives of the Neoliberal Motorist --; Conclusion ‘Deplorable’ Mobilities and the Future of the Car Adventure --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800735644; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800735644
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gijs Mom.

The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West’s media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.