Arve Hansen is Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, NorwayKenneth Bo Nielsen is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

• PART I: Introduction1. Wheels of Change: Cars, automobility and development in AsiaPART II: Driving Development: Car Industries and National Development2. Comparative Policies for Automotive Development in Southeast Asia3. The Asian Automotive Industry and Labour Organising4. Revolution or Evolution? The Making of the Automobile Sector as a Key Industry in Mid-20th Century India5. Proton – Malaysia’s National Car Project: Between Success and Failure?PART III: Contested Car Cultures: Consuming Automobility6. Doi Moi on Two and Four Wheels: Capitalist Development and Motorised Mobility in Vietnam7. Transport and Mobility: The Filipino Via Crucis8. The Shared Road: Cars, Pedestrians, and Bicyclists in Japan9. Car Crazy: The Rise of Car Culture in China10. The Rise and Fall of the ‘People’s Car’: Middle-Class Aspirations, Status and Mobile Symbolism in ‘New India’10. The Rise and Fall of the ‘People’s Car’: Middle-Class Aspirations, Status and Mobile Symbolism in ‘New India’

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