Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230618138 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year.Carjacked details the complex impact of the automobile on modern society and shows us how to develop a healthier, cheaper, and greener relationship with cars.. Carjacked is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars
She is an English teacher in Westport, Connecticut.. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studiesat Brown University where she holds a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology. Catherine Lutz is the Thomas J. Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former marketer and investment banker with fifteen years of corporate experience. As an author and editor, Professor Lutz has published nine books
"Very interesting examination of the car culture" according to Jason Stokes. I particularly enjoyed this book's layout of our American car culture - from the dreaminess of the 16 year old with their first keys, through the marketing process as buyer and seller, and ultimately, why the car culture has it's challenges, it was an entertaining read. I do admit, however, that it's very one sided - it's largely anti-car, as can be expected from the title, but not violently or disruptively . Read chapter 9, "Full Metal Jacket," more than once Since before I obtained a driver's license, let alone owned a car, I dreaded the idea of driving. It might have just been my personality - or had I realized the crazy-danger of automobile travel even if nothing articulated that thought as well as the book CARJACKED: THE CULTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILE & ITS EFFECT ON OUR LIVES, does? As a boy I was a passenger when accidents happened once with my mother driving an. gus said Fantastic! Both very interesting and a really enjoyable read.. For those of us who take getting into a car, turning the key in the ignition, and driving off as a simple fact of life, Carjacked asks the reader to pause for a moment to think seriously about the role of automobiles in our lives. The result is an intelligent and highly readable examination of all that results from a culture so reflexively connected to driving, but not necessarily to all of its varied and re
Replete with the ironic and irrational aspects of owning and driving cars, it partakes of car psychology to deliver its message about the statistical costs of four-wheeled freedom. Turning to life on the road, Lutz and Fernandez, relying on studies and interviews with about 100 drivers, look askance at public expenditure on automobile infrastructure, fractions of lives spent in cars––and lost in them by the tens of thousands annually. An agenda for personal and political action concludes the authors’ knowledgeable survey of car culture. Emphasizing the attachment of values such as personal independence to car ownership, not to me