Custom Contestations
Lowriders and Urban Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2280652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Chappell |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-47 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0893-0465 • E-ISSN: 1548-744X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-744x.2010.01029.x |
| OpenAlex | W1894536953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article examines the production of space and contestation of spatial governmentality that occurs in the everyday cruising practices of lowrider car customizers in Austin, Texas. Lowrider style, practiced mostly, but not exclusively, by Mexican Americans, is a form of automotive aesthetics which carries associations with working-class, Latino/a barrio communities. Drawing on critical theories of the production and governance of space, I trace the politics inherent in lowrider cruising and the confrontations with police it occasions. From the perspective of lowriders, I present a critique of community policing as a practice of government, which has the effects of criminalizing lowriders and subjecting them to heightened levels of surveillance
Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban Planning and Governance
Introduction
Automatic transmission
A Neighborhood Shopping Street and the Making of Urban Cultures and Economies in Germany
Cinderella Wears a Hijab
Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile
Emergent public space
Reprint of “Emergent public space
Policing Race and Performing State Power
Joyriding
Contesting Urban Space and Disability in HighlandEcuador
Coming Out' to 'Hit the Road
Marxism and literature
Spatial Formations
National Performances
Border Visions
Thirdspace
Dissonant Identities
Barrio-Logos
Barrio Urbanism
Introduction
Barrio Dreams
Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places
Border Matters
Working the Boundaries
Race, Protest, and Public Space
Anthropologies of Modernity
Discipline and Punish
Rehearsals of The Sovereign
Cultural Studies in Today's Chicano/Latino Scholarship
Representing, Politics, and the Politics of Representation in Gang Studies
Isolation and Stigmatization in the Development of an Underclass
The Misunderstanding of Mexican Community Life in Urban Apartment Space
Heart like a Car
Spatial Govemmentality and the New Urban Social Order
Space
Driving in the City
Spatializing States
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,79 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |