Gijs Mom
Biographic Data
| ID | 532161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gijs Mom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gijs |
| FAMILY NAME | Mom |
| SIGNATURE | MOM G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Our City is Ruined. Reason: Road Widening”
Govind Gopakumar, Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020) Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) Tarini Bedi, Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022) Rano Tur…
Trending Transfers: A Decade of New Mobility Studies through the Lens of Transmodality, Transnationalism, and Transdisciplinarity
Looking back on nine years of Transfers , this essay first analyzes the journal’s 141 main articles statistically, investigating whether and how much they represented the editorial team’s ambition to develop New Mobility Studies guided by transmodality, transnationalism, and transdisciplinarity, in the process decentering the vehicle, the nation, and even history. Together with its hundreds of Editorials, opinionated Ideas in Motion essays and bo…
Atlantic automobilism: Emergence and persistence of the car, 1895–1940
Our continued use of the combustion engine in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad …
Orchestrating Automobile Technology: Comfort, Mobility Culture, and the Construction of the "Family Touring Car," 1917-1940
During the social and technical construction of the affordable "family touring car" in both the United States and Europe, one of the urgent projects was the abatement of noise. As a part of the emergence of "automotive comfort," noise abatement took place during one of the costliest operations in the history of automotive technology: the closing of the body. From an open tourer, the car, during the interwar period, developed into a sedan, encapsu…
Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving
Encapsulating culture: European car travel, 1900–1940
This article analyzes the gradual encapsulation of motorists into a closed cocoon and the parallel domestication of a dominant masculine, aggressive subculture of the early automobile. It uncovers the existence of a specific French–Belgian group of (male) avant-garde artists who were at the same time automobile pioneers. During the Interbellum, this subculture was replaced by a petit-bourgeois culture, where aggression had morphed into a distance…
Entries
Compétition et coexistence: La Motorisation Des Transports Terrestres Et Le Lent Processus De Substitution De La Traction Équine
Cet article interroge les liens entre la mécanisation des moyens de transport terrestre et la disparition du cheval comme outil de locomotion. Trois domaines différents sont successivement analysés : le chemin de fer et le tramway dans la seconde moitié du xix e siècle, le développement des flottes de camions et de taxis en milieu urbain au tournant du siècle, le développement des tracteurs agricoles. Dans chacun de ces trois domaines, la diffusi…
"Diffusion and technological change. Culture, technology and the emergence of a "European car
Roads without Rails: European Highway-Network Building and the Desire for Long-Range Motorized Mobility
Limited-access highways were introduced before the Second World War in some European countries, and after that war in many others around the world, including the United States. They were superimposed upon an already existing, hierarchical system of roads. This article analyses the emergence of the 'highway concept,' focusing on the special case of the Netherlands. It argues that in order to build such roads, power had to be shifted to the state; …
Inter‐artifactual Technology Transfer: Road Building Technology in the Netherlands and the Competition Between Bricks, Macadam, Asphalt and Concrete
How did asphalt become dominant in pavement technology? This analysis argues that the victory of asphalt, as of many other technologies that compete with alternatives, is not so much the result of substitution at the level of the artifact or of the technology, but rather is the result of competition at the level of (technical) properties and (user) functions. The case of pavement technology shows that that technology becomes dominant which appear…
Die holprige Siegeszug des Automobils, 1895-1930, and: Geschichte des Autos (review)
Few would deny that we need a history of European automobility rather badly. The question is what such a history should look like. More than a decade ago, James Laux, with a focus on the production side, gave an answer [End Page 195] that would not satisfy many of us anymore. On the other hand, these two new publications by Christoph Merki and Kurt Möser are clearly written with the aim of providing at least a crucial stepping-stone toward that h…
Costs, Technology and Culture: Propelling the Early Taxicab, 1900–25
The taxicab is a good example of early utilitarian deployment of the automobile, a fact often overlooked in automotive historiography focused upon the pleasures of early automobility. The taxicab is also crucial in understanding how the petrol-driven automobile could become a vehicle for dense urban traffic, an application for which the electric automobile seemed more suited. The dilemma of the choice between electric and petrol engine propulsion…
What Kind of Transport History Did We Get: Half a Century of JTH and the Future of the Field
Gijs Mom reviews fifty years of the Journal of Transport History and evaluates what was, is and should be the role of `the world's only specialist journal of transport history
Von Ford lernen? Automobilbau und Motorisierung in Deutschland bis 1933 (review)
Since the 1980s, American dominance in the scholarly history of the automobile has been seriously challenged. Following James Laux's courageous, though perhaps premature, effort to write a history of the European automobile industry from scratch, several monographs about national and even regional and local automobilism have appeared. Apart from their intrinsic value, their indirect function has been to enable several corrections to the American …
Visions of Transportation: The EVC and the Transition from Service- to Product-Based Mobility
The Electric Vehicle Company (EVC) and its affiliated operating entities (1897–1912), along with similar electric taxicab ventures in London and Paris, figured prominently in the early history of the automobile industry. Long dismissed as a quintessential instance of business failure resulting from the choice of inferior technology, the picture of EVC that emerges from new archival evidence suggests a different view. Seen within the continuing el…
Technologies in Tension: Horses, Electric Trucks, and the Motorization of American Cities, 1900-1925
No abstract
What Kind of Transport History Did We Get: Half a Century of JTH and the Future of the Field
Gijs Mom reviews fifty years of the Journal of Transport History and evaluates what was, is and should be the role of `the world's only specialist journal of transport history
Roads without Rails: European Highway-Network Building and the Desire for Long-Range Motorized Mobility
Limited-access highways were introduced before the Second World War in some European countries, and after that war in many others around the world, including the United States. They were superimposed upon an already existing, hierarchical system of roads. This article analyses the emergence of the 'highway concept,' focusing on the special case of the Netherlands. It argues that in order to build such roads, power had to be shifted to the state; …
Costs, Technology and Culture: Propelling the Early Taxicab, 1900–25
The taxicab is a good example of early utilitarian deployment of the automobile, a fact often overlooked in automotive historiography focused upon the pleasures of early automobility. The taxicab is also crucial in understanding how the petrol-driven automobile could become a vehicle for dense urban traffic, an application for which the electric automobile seemed more suited. The dilemma of the choice between electric and petrol engine propulsion…
Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving
Encapsulating culture: European car travel, 1900–1940
This article analyzes the gradual encapsulation of motorists into a closed cocoon and the parallel domestication of a dominant masculine, aggressive subculture of the early automobile. It uncovers the existence of a specific French–Belgian group of (male) avant-garde artists who were at the same time automobile pioneers. During the Interbellum, this subculture was replaced by a petit-bourgeois culture, where aggression had morphed into a distance…
Technologies in Tension: Horses, Electric Trucks, and the Motorization of American Cities, 1900-1925
No abstract
Atlantic automobilism: Emergence and persistence of the car, 1895–1940
Our continued use of the combustion engine in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad …
Orchestrating Automobile Technology: Comfort, Mobility Culture, and the Construction of the "Family Touring Car," 1917-1940
During the social and technical construction of the affordable "family touring car" in both the United States and Europe, one of the urgent projects was the abatement of noise. As a part of the emergence of "automotive comfort," noise abatement took place during one of the costliest operations in the history of automotive technology: the closing of the body. From an open tourer, the car, during the interwar period, developed into a sedan, encapsu…
Technologies in Tension: Horses, Electric Trucks, and the Motorization of American Cities, 1900-1925
No abstract
Von Ford lernen? Automobilbau und Motorisierung in Deutschland bis 1933 (review)
Since the 1980s, American dominance in the scholarly history of the automobile has been seriously challenged. Following James Laux's courageous, though perhaps premature, effort to write a history of the European automobile industry from scratch, several monographs about national and even regional and local automobilism have appeared. Apart from their intrinsic value, their indirect function has been to enable several corrections to the American …
Visions of Transportation: The EVC and the Transition from Service- to Product-Based Mobility
The Electric Vehicle Company (EVC) and its affiliated operating entities (1897–1912), along with similar electric taxicab ventures in London and Paris, figured prominently in the early history of the automobile industry. Long dismissed as a quintessential instance of business failure resulting from the choice of inferior technology, the picture of EVC that emerges from new archival evidence suggests a different view. Seen within the continuing el…
Costs, Technology and Culture: Propelling the Early Taxicab, 1900–25
The taxicab is a good example of early utilitarian deployment of the automobile, a fact often overlooked in automotive historiography focused upon the pleasures of early automobility. The taxicab is also crucial in understanding how the petrol-driven automobile could become a vehicle for dense urban traffic, an application for which the electric automobile seemed more suited. The dilemma of the choice between electric and petrol engine propulsion…
What Kind of Transport History Did We Get: Half a Century of JTH and the Future of the Field
Gijs Mom reviews fifty years of the Journal of Transport History and evaluates what was, is and should be the role of `the world's only specialist journal of transport history
Inter‐artifactual Technology Transfer: Road Building Technology in the Netherlands and the Competition Between Bricks, Macadam, Asphalt and Concrete
How did asphalt become dominant in pavement technology? This analysis argues that the victory of asphalt, as of many other technologies that compete with alternatives, is not so much the result of substitution at the level of the artifact or of the technology, but rather is the result of competition at the level of (technical) properties and (user) functions. The case of pavement technology shows that that technology becomes dominant which appear…
Die holprige Siegeszug des Automobils, 1895-1930, and: Geschichte des Autos (review)
Few would deny that we need a history of European automobility rather badly. The question is what such a history should look like. More than a decade ago, James Laux, with a focus on the production side, gave an answer [End Page 195] that would not satisfy many of us anymore. On the other hand, these two new publications by Christoph Merki and Kurt Möser are clearly written with the aim of providing at least a crucial stepping-stone toward that h…
Roads without Rails: European Highway-Network Building and the Desire for Long-Range Motorized Mobility
Limited-access highways were introduced before the Second World War in some European countries, and after that war in many others around the world, including the United States. They were superimposed upon an already existing, hierarchical system of roads. This article analyses the emergence of the 'highway concept,' focusing on the special case of the Netherlands. It argues that in order to build such roads, power had to be shifted to the state; …
"Diffusion and technological change. Culture, technology and the emergence of a "European car
Entries
Compétition et coexistence: La Motorisation Des Transports Terrestres Et Le Lent Processus De Substitution De La Traction Équine
Cet article interroge les liens entre la mécanisation des moyens de transport terrestre et la disparition du cheval comme outil de locomotion. Trois domaines différents sont successivement analysés : le chemin de fer et le tramway dans la seconde moitié du xix e siècle, le développement des flottes de camions et de taxis en milieu urbain au tournant du siècle, le développement des tracteurs agricoles. Dans chacun de ces trois domaines, la diffusi…
Encapsulating culture: European car travel, 1900–1940
This article analyzes the gradual encapsulation of motorists into a closed cocoon and the parallel domestication of a dominant masculine, aggressive subculture of the early automobile. It uncovers the existence of a specific French–Belgian group of (male) avant-garde artists who were at the same time automobile pioneers. During the Interbellum, this subculture was replaced by a petit-bourgeois culture, where aggression had morphed into a distance…
Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving
Orchestrating Automobile Technology: Comfort, Mobility Culture, and the Construction of the "Family Touring Car," 1917-1940
During the social and technical construction of the affordable "family touring car" in both the United States and Europe, one of the urgent projects was the abatement of noise. As a part of the emergence of "automotive comfort," noise abatement took place during one of the costliest operations in the history of automotive technology: the closing of the body. From an open tourer, the car, during the interwar period, developed into a sedan, encapsu…
Atlantic automobilism: Emergence and persistence of the car, 1895–1940
Our continued use of the combustion engine in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad …
Trending Transfers: A Decade of New Mobility Studies through the Lens of Transmodality, Transnationalism, and Transdisciplinarity
Looking back on nine years of Transfers , this essay first analyzes the journal’s 141 main articles statistically, investigating whether and how much they represented the editorial team’s ambition to develop New Mobility Studies guided by transmodality, transnationalism, and transdisciplinarity, in the process decentering the vehicle, the nation, and even history. Together with its hundreds of Editorials, opinionated Ideas in Motion essays and bo…
“Our City is Ruined. Reason: Road Widening”
Govind Gopakumar, Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020) Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) Tarini Bedi, Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022) Rano Tur…
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