Off road: four-wheel drive and the sense of place
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1996
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Bishop, P.
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Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space, 1996; 14(3):257-271
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In this paper I argue that the popularity of four-wheel drive vehicles has important consequences for contemporary notions of place and should be considered in the context of the upsurge in high-tech, especially communication, systems. Four-wheel drive culture encompasses both a literal mobility and a fantasy relationship between urban or suburban regions and those of the great outdoors, especially wilderness. By using the Australian experience as a case study I show that four-wheel drive culture plays a crucial part in the construction of what could be called the deep outback and the deep suburbs. It thereby plays a significant role in a renegotiation of the iconography of national identity.
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Copyright 1996 Sage Publications