Open Access(S)cars: Exploring America's Automotive Self
Author(s) -
Paweł Jędrzejko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
review of international american studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.107
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1991-2773
DOI - 10.31261/rias.11708
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , automotive industry , adaptation (eye) , sociology , aesthetics , history , psychology , engineering , art , archaeology , neuroscience , aerospace engineering
The article opens with an autoethnographic account of its author's encounter with the American sense of space in the context of the clash of his own and American cultural norms related to car ownership and car use. The initial anecdotes, in which the negative experiences of the authors lack of knowledge of the essentials of the car culture in the US prove to be instrumental in the process of learning and adaptation, lead to a more profound, historiosophic reflection upon the cars as vehicles of ethics across American cultural history.