Round and Round We Go! The Performative Nature of the Roundabout
| Autor: | Christopher Livingston, Thomas Sullivan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Energy (esotericism) 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning Performative utterance 02 engineering and technology Urban Studies Transport engineering Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Aesthetics Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Performativity Mediation Roundabout Sociology 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Space and Culture. 21:455-468 |
| ISSN: | 1552-8308 1206-3312 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1206331217741833 |
| Popis: | The American roundabout is dominated by pragmatic engineering-based literature that emphasizes safety, geometry, cost, energy use, aesthetics, and the mediation of congestion. We, however, propose that the roundabout is a tool for a change in political and social practice in how it promotes a shift in users’ behavior and opens up possibilities for subverting aspects of the automobility discourse. In demonstrating how infrastructure facilitates this change in practice, our research reveals that subtle alterations to the powerful American ideals of individuality, mobility, and freedom occur inside and outside of the roundabout—an unconventional public space. Using aspects of performance theory from the work of Judith Butler, we suggest that these alterations in practice have the potential, over time, to undermine this discourse. |
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