Green, J;
Steinbach, R;
Garnett, E;
Christie, N;
Prior, L;
(2017)
Automobility reconfigured? Ironic seductions and mundane freedoms in 16-21 year olds’ accounts of car driving and ownership.
Mobilities
10.1080/17450101.2017.1331017.
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Abstract
In the light of the ‘peak-car’ thesis, this paper explores the driving-related desires and practices of adults aged 16–21 and their parents from the UK. Tropes of freedom and independence were commonly evoked; but were pragmatically framed by concerns of finance, utility and risk. Car ownership was prized only for instrumental reasons, and as one tool in a mixed, collective transport network: it had been decoupled from automobility. Environmental sustainability was notably absent from discussions. It may be too early to herald the end of automobility but, for these participants, its seductions have been rendered ironic, rather than aspirational.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Automobility reconfigured? Ironic seductions and mundane freedoms in 16-21 year olds’ accounts of car driving and ownership |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331017 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1331017 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way |
| Keywords: | Driving, peak car, post car, UK, young adults, natural groups, social practice |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1546944 |
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