Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise ; Revisitando autopistas hacia el silencio: una historia de las coaliciones discursivas sobre el ruido del tráfico

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the density of road traffic in the Global North decreased considerably. For those enjoying the resulting tranquillity, it prompted the hope that this experience would raise public noise awareness and alter mobility culture. Now that Global North economies are returning to pre-pandemic levels, however, not much appears to have changed. This article aims to contribute to understanding the persistence of the status quo by historically tracing discourse coalitions around traffic noise in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Discourse coalitions are connection... Mehr ...