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Abstract
The Yom Kippur war in October 1973 resulted in an oil embargo from OPEC – for eleven weekends it was strictly forbidden to drive on Sundays in Denmark. This was basically a psychological or symbolic measure to heighten the public awareness of the fundamental dependency on oil in Denmark. The prohibition against Sunday driving was generally accepted and respected by the public. Many Danes even greeted the measure and enjoyed the silence, the clean air and the lack of perils from the automobiles. The political decision to prohibit Sunday driving was taken with the consideration that this would do much less social harm than a rationing of gasoline or other harsh measures to everyday transportation. This event marks the crucial turning point of the mediation and consumption junction from leisure to everyday automobilism.
Original language | Danish |
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Journal | Jyske Historiker |
Issue number | 127-128 |
Pages (from-to) | 239-262 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISSN | 0109-9280 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2012 |
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EUWOL: Making it All Work for You: Technological Discourses, Representations and Mediation Junctions in Danish Leisure Society, 1920-1989.
Wagner, M.
Inventing Europe: Technology and the making of Europe 1850 to the present; European Ways of Life in the Short Twentieth Century, <ingen navn>
19/05/2010 → …
Project: Research