Academic Flying and the Means of Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Ending the Romance of Academic Flying

   • Kristian Bjørkdahl, Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte

   Pages 1-18Open Access

3. The Carbon Footprint of Travelling to International Academic Conferences and Options to Minimise It

   • Sebastian Jäckle

   Pages 19-52Open Access

4. The End of Flying: Coronavirus Confinement, Academic (Im)mobilities and Me

   • Mimi Sheller

   Pages 53-77Open Access

5. The Absent Presence of Aeromobility: A Case of Australian Academic Air Travel Practices and University Policy

   • Andrew Glover, Tania Lewis, Yolande Strengers

   Pages 79-101Open Access

6. How Environmentally Sustainable Is the Internationalisation of Higher Education? A View from Australia

   • Hans A. Baer

   Pages 103-132Open Access

7. Who Gets to Fly?

   • Daniel Pargman, Jarmo Laaksolahti, Elina Eriksson, Markus Robèrt, Aksel Biørn-Hansen

   Pages 133-158Open Access

8. Exceptionalism and Evasion: How Scholars Reason About Air Travel

   • Elina Eriksson, Maria Wolrath Söderberg, Nina Wormbs

   Pages 159-183Open Access

9. Academic Aeromobility in the Global Periphery

   • James Higham, Debbie Hopkins, Caroline Orchiston

   Pages 185-207Open Access

10. The Virus and the Elephant in the Room: Knowledge, Emotions and a Pandemic—Drivers to Reducing Flying in Academia

    • Lisa Jacobson

    Pages 209-235Open Access

11. Decarbonising Academia’s Flyout Culture

    • Nicholas A. Poggioli, Andrew J. Hoffman

    Pages 237-267Open Access

12. Aeromobilities and Academic Work

    • Claus Lassen

    Pages 269-296Open Access

13. Means and Meanings of Research Collaboration in the Face of a Suffering Earth: A Landscape of Questions

    • Birgit Schaffar, Eevi E. Beck

    Pages 297-325Open Access

14. Academic Air Travel Cultures: A Framework for Reducing Academic Flying

    • Sherry H. Y. Tseng, James Higham, Craig Lee

    Pages 327-353Open Access

15. Back Matter

    Pages 355-365

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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.

• new mobilities paradigm
• mobilities
• climate change
• air travel
• carbon footprint
• academic communication
• academic conferences
• academic institutions
• university administrators
• academic flying
• sustainability
• communication technology
• COVID-19
• open access

• Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  Kristian Bjørkdahl, Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte

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.