Overview
- Provides the first and only volume to collect and consolidate current research on academic aeromobility
- Uncovers the mechanisms that have made flying seem necessary to the academic enterprise
- Offers research-based proposals for how to reduce academia’s reliance on flying
- Reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed or might change attitudes towards air travel
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About this book
This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past? The chapters in this book respond to this call in three steps. It documents the consequences of academic flying, it investigates the issue of why academics fly, and it begins an effort to think through what can replace flying, and how. Finally, it confronts scholars and scientists, students, activists, research funders, university administrators, and others, with a call to translate this research into action.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kristian Bjørkdahl is a rhetoric scholar at the University of Oslo. He currently does research on the organization of science communication work, and on how the idea of Nordic colonial innocence is used rhetorically. He has been editor or co-editor of several volumes, including Pandemics, Publics, and Politics (Palgrave, 2019).
Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte is a lawyer pursuing postgraduate study at the University of Oslo. He has experience from public-private partnerships, social and environmental dispute resolution, and infrastructure projects. He is currently conducting research on the role of social media communication in environmental disasters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
Editors: Kristian Bjørkdahl, Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4911-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4910-3Published: 21 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4913-4Published: 21 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-4911-0Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 365
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Sociology, general, Research Methods in Education, Science and Technology Studies, Media and Communication