Lindagaard2016

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Lindagaard2016
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Lindagaard2016
Author(s) Laura Bang Lindegaard
Title The discursive accomplishment of rationalities in the automobility regime
Editor(s) Marcel Endres, Katharina Manderscheid, Christophe Mincke
Tag(s) EMCA, Mobility, Cars, Automobiles
Publisher Routledge
Year 2016
Language English
City London
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Pages 68–88
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DOI 10.4324/9781315555515-6
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Howpublished
Book title The Mobilities Paradigm: Discourses and Ideologies
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the subject conceptualisations within mobilities research. It highlights the role of automobility in constituting prototypically modern subjectivity in order to strengthen the argument of the co-constitution of social formations and mobile subjectivities. The co-constitution and co-emergence of socio-spatial order and subjectification have been elaborated by numerous mobilities scholars in relation to automobility. Mobility, infrastructures and spaces are being constructed and made meaningful through a range of symbols, representations and discourses. The topographical separation of working and dwelling that makes car driving and thus car owning necessary for large parts of the workforce in Western societies did not just naturally happen but is itself at the same time the cause and effect of the modern spreading of car mobility. Other mobile subjects pedestrians, public traffic users, cyclists, passengers although co-products and derivatives of automobility are of lower degree of generalisation and recognition.

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