Cars
Cars: How do cars transmit our identities behind the wheel? Laurie Taylor explores the meaning of cars from Bradford to China.
CARS: How do cars transmit our identities behind the wheel? Laurie Taylor explores the meaning of cars from Bradford to China. Yunis Alam, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bradford, discusses his study of car ownership amongst Bradfordians of Pakistani heritage. How do cars project status, class, taste and racial identity? Also, Jun Zhang, Assistant Professor of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong, describes the rise of car consumption in China and the ways in which it has shaped the emerging, but insecure, middle class.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Yunis Alam, Race, Taste, Class and Cars (Policy Press, 2020)
Jun Zhang, Driving toward Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2019)
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- Wed 30 Sep 2020 16:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Mon 5 Oct 2020 00:15麻豆社 Radio 4
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