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“Driving Modernities: Automobile Politics in the Americas”

Wed, May 27, 2:00 to 3:45pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel will explore the Latin American experience of automobility through papers that examine policies promoting mass motorization and road-building in Latin America’s largest economies: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Scholars in other parts of the world have already produced a rich interdisciplinary literature that treats mass motorization as a constitutive force that redefined labour relations, state power, consumption, space, and ecology in the twentieth century. These papers aim to develop a richer understanding of the automobile’s place within Latin American modernity and the continent’s evolving relationship with the United States.

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