"Car Culture and the Road"
SWTX welcomes scholars at all levels. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
•road movies, videogames, graphic novels, fiction
•lowriders, hot rods, custom cars and racial / ethnic identity
•car or biker clubs / Shows
•histories of roads, routes, highways, traffic
•GPS, Google Maps, automobility
•Route 66 and roadside architecture
•Nation and/ or citizenship, region, locality
•advertising, symbols, propaganda
•borders, real and imagined
•remapping the road in post-apocalyptic landscapes / “The road to nowhere”
•environment, “Going Green”
•urbanization, globalization
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