Off the road or off the mark? The anti-4x4 campaigns

Wells, Peter Erskine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4376-7178 2005. Off the road or off the mark? The anti-4x4 campaigns. Comment and Analysis, Cardiff: The Centre For Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society.

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Abstract

It has become the modern urban stereotype of our times: the mum dropping off her child to school on a three-mile round trip in a rolling two-tonne battlewagon designed to cross the sand dunes of Namibia or the forest tracks of the Amazonian jungle. We are incensed, outraged at this blatantly anti-social act by somebody who clearly puts the safety and comfort of herself and her child above any consideration of her actions on collective community welfare or the viability of the planet. In North America, and now here in the UK, activists are campaigning against the 4x4 with increasingly militant and interventionist strategies. It is a campaign that is at best misguided and illogical, and at worst downright counter-productive.

Item Type:	Monograph (Other)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) Business (Including Economics) Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Systems At Cardiff (CAMSAC)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
Publisher:	The Centre For Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society
Related URLs:	Organisation
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 10:22
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/39991

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