Traffic, Gender, Modernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5126172 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1_suppl |
| Pages | 175-189 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2006.00643.x |
| OpenAlex | W1491576537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article considers how the tropes of movement and flux in modernism can be understood by connecting them with the material technologies of transportation. The author proposes that the voyager is the typical figure of early twentieth century modernism in Britain. The author offers a deliberate contrast to the depiction of the automobile in contemporary American culture and shows the impact of changes in the use of material space by automobiles upon human relationships. For example, it was estimated in the early 1990s that three-quarters of cars entering London remain parked there all day. The social organization of street transportation thus stifles the very aspect of human experience it was meant to enable: the desire to move to some other place and the distance required for all desire to operate, is thwarted and time itself is copiously but futilely consumed
Aesthetics · Art · Depiction · Literature · Modernism (music) · Post modernism · Postmodernism · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Landscape and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
Modernizacija prometa v obdobju industrijske urbanizacije – bogata zapuščina ali breme teženj k povečevanju mobilnosti v slovenskih mestih
Stories of the gendered mobile work of English lorry driving
Before Fittipaldi, Piquet and Senna
“Vill ‘Hem’, Men Vet ej var Hemmet Ligger”
She does not go. Immaginazioni geografiche al femminile in Pirandello
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |