Cars and hate: Legal semiotics of automobility and combustion masculinity
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Marusek, S
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Wagner, Anne
Marusek, Sarah
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The chapter considered the legal semiotics of combustion masculinity. It identifies car culture and its attendant structure of automobility - that includes law - establish and normalize combustion masculinity, a highly aggressive and violent orientated way of using, moving and living with cars. It considered how this involves the car as manifesting hate. Either hated or used to express hate. The dehumanizing and othering from this hating has rendered the car an instrument of terror. Its speed and mass are used against others. The law remains ambiguous and conflicted, in relation to the car as terror, often failing to see these as hate crimes and legalizing the vehicle as a weapon when used by police. The chapter concludes by suggesting that transformations in transport technologies and forms might be leading to changing legal imaginaries in relation to mobility, suggesting the possible overtaking of the hate and violence of combustion masculinity.
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Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics
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Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation
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Tranter, K; Marusek, S, Cars and hate: Legal semiotics of automobility and combustion masculinity, Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics, 2023, pp. 376-393