Academic Flying and the Means of Communication

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bjørkdahl, Kristian (Editor), Franco Duharte, Adrian Santiago (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: ending the romance of academic flying
  • Chapter 2: The carbon footprint of travelling to international academic conferences and options to minimise it
  • Chapter 3: The end of flying: coronavirus confinement, academic (im)mobilities and me
  • Chapter 4: The absent presence of aeromobility: a case of australian academic air travel practices and university policy
  • Chapter 5: How environmentally sustainable is the internationalisation of higher education? a view from australia
  • Chapter 6: Who gets to fly?
  • Chapter 7: Exceptionalism and evasion: how scholars reason about air travel
  • Chapter 8: Academic aeromobility in the global periphery
  • Chapter 9: The virus and the elephant in the room: knowledge, emotions and a pandemic - drivers to reducing flying in academia
  • Chapter 10: Decarbonising academia's flyout culture
  • Chapter 11: Aeromobilities and academic work
  • Chapter 12: Means and meanings of research collaboration in the face of a suffering earth: a landscape of questions
  • Chapter 13: Academic air travel cultures: a framework for reducing academic flying. .