Category: Car Blanche
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Consciousness raising, a desk rejection, and your car supremacy story: what the early fight for abortion rights can teach us (me) about the right to peaceful mobility
I’m almost done reading The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service. First of all, I’m ashamed to say I had no idea this history and group existed so it’s about time I learned about it. In addition to covering the effort’s shortcomings, the author treats readers to…
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When performance oversight testimony isn’t a mere…oversight
You know time is flying when you think it’s still March more than a week into April 🤯 Now that I know what month it is – and since it’s been a minute – I figured I was overdue for getting updates and reflections out into the blogosphere. For one,…
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Can you tackle car supremacy if you…live in the ‘burbs? 😱
I was recently invited to share my research with a class at the high school I attended. I was really lucky to get a scholarship (perhaps the one pay off for the diligent care my mom took to schlep me to endless soccer tournaments ⚽️) to an all girls private…
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We need to talk about car supremacy
The deeper I get into my doctoral program, the more I’m reminded of how important language is. The deeper I get into my dissertation research, the more I’m reminded of how inadequate our current language is to fully grapple with the impact that cars have on society. I’ve already written…
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So are cars…inherently violent?
In the last post I shared my views about expanding our vocabulary to vehicular violence to encapsulate all the direct, structural, and cultural violence of cars. This characterization begs the question: are cars inherently violent? Just because this blog is titled “Peace and Planning” doesn’t mean there isn’t room for…
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There’s more to “vehicular violence” than alliteration
Safe streets advocates frequently talk about traffic violence – when a person dies or is grievously injured because they were involved in a car crash. Lately I’ve been weary of using this term. While in some spaces we might think of traffic as rather benign (“the store had decent foot…
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