Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia Wheels of change Routledge Studies in Transport, Environment and Development Series

Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective. The book seeks to integrate the policies, production forms, consumption preferences and symbolism implicated in emerging Asian automobilities. Using empirically rich and grounded analyses of both comparative and single-country case studies, the authors chart new approaches to studying automobility and development in emerging Asia.

PART I: Introduction

1. Wheels of Change: Cars, automobility and development in Asia

PART II: Driving Development: Car Industries and National Development

2. Comparative Policies for Automotive Development in Southeast Asia

3. The Asian Automotive Industry and Labour Organising

4. Revolution or Evolution? The Making of the Automobile Sector as a Key Industry in Mid-20th Century India

5. Proton – Malaysia’s National Car Project: Between Success and Failure?

PART III: Contested Car Cultures: Consuming Automobility

6. Doi Moi on Two and Four Wheels: Capitalist Development and Motorised Mobility in Vietnam

7. Transport and Mobility: The Filipino Via Crucis

8. The Shared Road: Cars, Pedestrians, and Bicyclists in Japan

9. Car Crazy: The Rise of Car Culture in China10. The Rise and Fall of the ‘People’s Car’: Middle-Class Aspirations, Status and Mobile Symbolism in ‘New India’

10. The Rise and Fall of the ‘People’s Car’: Middle-Class Aspirations, Status and Mobile Symbolism in ‘New India’

Arve Hansen is Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway

Kenneth Bo Nielsen is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway