{"product_id":"transportation-and-the-culture-of-climate-change-accelerating-ride-to-global-crisis-paperback","title":"Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTatiana Prorokova-Konrad\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material, logistical question but as a phenomenon mediated by culture, the book interrogates popular assumptions deeply entangled with energy choices. Rethinking transportation, the contributors argue, necessarily involves fundamental understandings of consumption, freedom, and self\"--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material, logistical question but as a phenomenon mediated by culture, the book interrogates popular assumptions deeply entangled with energy choices. Rethinking transportation, the contributors argue, necessarily involves fundamental understandings of consumption, freedom, and self. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays in \u003ci\u003eTransportation and the Culture of Climate Change \u003c\/i\u003ecover an eclectic range of subject matter, from the association of bicycles with childhood to the songs of Bruce Springsteen, but are united in a central conviction: \"Transport is a considerable part of our culture that is as hard to transform as it is for us to stop using fossil fuels--but we do not have an alternative.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTatiana Prorokova-Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of English and American studies at the University of Vienna. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDocu-Fictions of War: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51790748254496,"sku":"9781949199642","price":59.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d24e75f431124f10cb377cb40dcc80c0.webp?v=1780684348","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/transportation-and-the-culture-of-climate-change-accelerating-ride-to-global-crisis-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}