TY - JOUR AU - Paweł Jędrzejko PY - 2021/12/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - (S)cars: Exploring America's Automotive Self JF - Review of International American Studies JA - RIAS VL - 14 IS - 2 SE - ED/NOTE DO - 10.31261/rias.11708 UR - https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/11708 AB - The article opens with an autoethnographic account of its author's encounter with the American sense of space in the context of the clash of his own and American cultural norms related to car ownership and car use. The initial anecdotes, in which the negative experiences of the authors lack of knowledge of the essentials of the car culture in the US prove to be instrumental in the process of learning and adaptation, lead to a more profound, historiosophic reflection upon the cars as vehicles of ethics across American cultural history.  ER -