Car Cultures (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14528661 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin L Borg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 636-637 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2002.0105 |
| OpenAlex | W1983648647 |
| Language | EN |
This collection of ten essays in Berg's Materializing Culture series is framed by Daniel Miller as an attempt "to turn the study of cars into [the study] of car cultures" (p. 30). Following Miller's introductory essay, "Driven Societies," each of the other essays focuses on a particular aspect of contemporary car usage. While the collection is not historical, historians of technology interested in the use, consumption, modification, and meaning of technological artifacts will find this volume engaging and provocative
Aesthetics · Art · Consumption (sociology) · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Media studies · Miller · Social science · Sociology · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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