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Academic Flying and the Means of Communication

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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.
Chapter 1: Introduction: ending the romance of academic flying.- Chapter 2: The carbon footprint of travelling to international academic con...

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Product ID:9789811649134
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Title:Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
Authors:Author: Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte, Kristian Bjørkdahl
Page Count:365
Subjects:Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Media studies, Education, Human geography, Media studies, Education, Human geography
Description: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.
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.                               

Imprint Name:Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Name:Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2021-12-21