Editorial
2023; Berghahn Books; Volume: 13; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3167/trans.2023.130301
ISSN2045-4821
ResumoScholar of mobility studies, what was your point of entry into our interdisciplinary field? Mine came relatively late, in graduate school. A course on cultural theory had supplied me with some tools to rotate the world on a different axis and see all kinds of phenomena anew. Another course, analyzing political economy, showed me how ideas shape how we work, live, and build. Inspired by these courses, all kinds of thoughts thrummed in my head as my college-town rock band hit the road for our first tour. Driving our van hundreds of miles every day across the country got me thinking: Where did this highway come from? (and, as David Byrne sang, Where does that highway go to? ). Why , I wondered, did we build this machine that facilitates and compels our mobility? I returned from that summer tour with a half-baked plan for a doctoral dissertation on the ideological origins and effects of the US Interstate Highway System, a plan to which my somewhat skeptical faculty mentors ultimately agreed.
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