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dc.contributor.authorTranter, K
dc.contributor.editorWilliam Taylor
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:24:16Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:24:16Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.modified2010-09-06T07:29:21Z
dc.identifier.issn1460-8944
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14608940307120
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/6221
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that the car is an intimate aspect of the governance of Australia. The term 'governance' is defined as the techniques used to know, order and manage individuals. The film Mad Max II: The Road Warrior is used as a prism to separate out the roles that the car performs in governance. Three roles are identified: the car as identity, the car as myth and the car as power. Applying this framework to Australia reveals the car's complex involvement in Australian governance, from the knowing and ordering of others, to collective myths of possession and future prosperity, to the knowing of place from space, to the removal of indigenous children. The significance of the car means Australia can be characterised as the petrochemical, chrome-plated cyborg republic of Oz.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent109044 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCarfax Publishing Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom67
dc.relation.ispartofpageto81
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalNational Identities
dc.relation.ispartofvolume5
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390302
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390305
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390112
dc.titleMad Max: The Car and Australian Governance
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Law
gro.rights.copyright© 2003 Routledge. This is an electronic version of an article published in National Identities Volume 5, Issue 1, 2003, 67-81. National Identities is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article.
gro.date.issued2003
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorTranter, Kieran M.


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