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This paper examines the politics of the nascent grassroots campaign against Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and their drivers. The anti-SUV campaign is another example of the politicization of private citizen behavior, a topic recently reviewed by Kersh and Morone (2002) in their analysis of the politics of obesity. The anti-SUV campaign shares some elements with the public health campaigns investigated by Kersh and Morone and with other moral reform movements. Like these other efforts, the anti-SUV campaign stigmatizes putatively private behavior using explicit and implicit moral appeals, it seeks to govern the self and others, and it demonizes both individuals and corporations. But it does not fit the typical mold of earlier crusades in two key ways. First, the anti-SUV campaign reverses the class, and to some extent the racial politics that underlies other efforts to control private behavior. Second, the SUV backlash relies to a great extent on humor and a sense of play, rather than the politics of fear.
I argue that while the movement has progressive roots, its critique is ultimately too limited in scope to have a significant policy impact. The limitations of the campaign stem from tensions in American political culture that the anti-SUV campaign confronts, the most significant of which is America’s ambivalence toward consumption. While institutional constraints, mobilization biases, and a lack of political leadership also pose challenges to policy reform, this paper focuses on the cultural and ideological challenges posed by America’s attitudes toward consumption. |
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| Pralle, Sarah. "I'm Changing the Climate! Ask Me How!: The Politics of the Anti-SUV Campaign" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61020_index.html> |
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| Pralle, S. , 2004-09-02 "I'm Changing the Climate! Ask Me How!: The Politics of the Anti-SUV Campaign" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61020_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper examines the politics of the nascent grassroots campaign against Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and their drivers. The anti-SUV campaign is another example of the politicization of private citizen behavior, a topic recently reviewed by Kersh and Morone (2002) in their analysis of the politics of obesity. The anti-SUV campaign shares some elements with the public health campaigns investigated by Kersh and Morone and with other moral reform movements. Like these other efforts, the anti-SUV campaign stigmatizes putatively private behavior using explicit and implicit moral appeals, it seeks to govern the self and others, and it demonizes both individuals and corporations. But it does not fit the typical mold of earlier crusades in two key ways. First, the anti-SUV campaign reverses the class, and to some extent the racial politics that underlies other efforts to control private behavior. Second, the SUV backlash relies to a great extent on humor and a sense of play, rather than the politics of fear.
I argue that while the movement has progressive roots, its critique is ultimately too limited in scope to have a significant policy impact. The limitations of the campaign stem from tensions in American political culture that the anti-SUV campaign confronts, the most significant of which is America’s ambivalence toward consumption. While institutional constraints, mobilization biases, and a lack of political leadership also pose challenges to policy reform, this paper focuses on the cultural and ideological challenges posed by America’s attitudes toward consumption. |
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| "I'm Changing the Climate Ask Me How!": The Politics of the Anti-SUV Campaign Sarah Pralle Department of Political Science Maxwell School at Syracuse University sbpralle@maxwell.syr.edu Abstract: This paper examines the politics of the nascent grassroots campaign against Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and their drivers. The anti-SUV campaign is another example of the politicization of private citizen behavior a topic recently reviewed by Kersh and Morone (2002) in their analysis of the politics of obesity. The anti-SUV campaign shares some |
| Poseur's Sport Utility Page. http://poseur.4x4.org/ Union of Concerned Scientists. "SUV Solutions." http://www.suvsolutions.org/ "Why I hate SUVs." http://www.urticator.net "Why I Hate SUVs and SUV Drivers." Threaded discussion. http://www.voy.com/14532/3691.html Pro-SUV Organizations Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. http://autoalliance.org Sport Utility Vehicle Owners of America. http://www.suvoa.com Alternative Transportation Organizations National Alliance of Public Transportation Advocates. http://www.napta Surface Transportation Policy Project. http://www.transact.org Transportation Alternatives. http://www.transalt.org World Carfree Network. Car Busters Campaign. http://www.carbusters.org |
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