TY - JOUR
AU - Franz, Kathleen
AB - 1230 The Journal of American History March 2009 drops for the featured images are standard ac- became an instrument for social control, as the counts that will be familiar to interested read- author demonstrates. Although the book’s sev- ers. Likewise, the closer the account gets to the en chapters move chronologically—beginning present, and particularly regarding the United with President Harry S. Truman’s conference on highway safety and ending with a discern- States after 9/11, the more the book seems like old news rather than a distinctive attempt to ing analysis of C3 technologies (communi- understand the presence of the past. cation, command, and control technologies such as global positioning systems [gps] and Robert Hariman onboard computers)—each studies one com- Northwestern University munity of users that threatened the ideal of a Evanston, Illinois “safe citizen subject” (pp. 5–6). Chapters ex- plore attempts to marginalize women drivers, Mobility without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and teenagers, hitchhikers, motorcyclists, truck- Citizenship. By Jeremy Packer. (Durham: ers, and people of color. Detailed case stud- Duke University Press, 2008. x, 349 pp. ies of gender discrimination, racial profiling, Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3952-6. Pa- class struggle, road rage, and the emergence of per, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3963-2.) neoliberal 
TI - Mobility without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship. By Jeremy Packer. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 349 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3952-6. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3963-2.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/27694691
DA - 2009-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/mobility-without-mayhem-safety-cars-and-citizenship-by-jeremy-packer-0BEVark8Wo
SP - 1230
EP - 1230
VL - 95
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -