Sport/utility vehicles as technologies of the suburban self: The only civilized way to leave civilization

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the transactional and transformative relationships between automobiles and their owners/drivers. Using the sport/utility vehicle as a case study, I show how both the automobile and its user go through transformations of meaning. These transformations take p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garnar, Andrew Wells II
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37000
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-82598-151536/