Elias, Jamal J

On wings of diesel: trucks, identity and culture in Pakistan / by Jamal J. Elias - India: One world publication, 2011 - 252 p.

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Beginnings -- History of a dystopic utopia -- Education and boundaries of class -- Trucks and transportation -- Trucks, truckers, and society -- Truck design and an artisanal trade -- Structure, motif, and meaning -- Religion, identity, and trucks -- Meaning, modernity, and shifting signifiers -- Truck design, art, and agency -- Appendix : Truck verse.

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