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 oblig...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature
2022
Springer Singapore Palgrave Macmillan |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9789811649110, 9811649111, 9811649103, 9789811649103 |
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Table of Contents:
- Beyond 'Technical Solutions': Geographies and Materialities of Digital Presence and Absence in Collaborative Research -- Building Understanding: Three Questions for Increased Awareness -- Action and Commitment to Change -- References -- 13: Academic Air Travel Cultures: A Framework for Reducing Academic Flying -- Introduction -- Why Do Academics Fly? -- Issues Concerning Academic Flying -- The Energy Cultures Framework -- The Impact of COVID-19: Rethinking Academic Air Travel -- The Transport Cultures Framework of Academic Flying -- Cognitive Norms -- Material Cultures -- Practices -- Applying the Framework to the Post-COVID New Normal -- Conclusions -- References -- Index
- Academic Flying and the Means of Communication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Ending the Romance of Academic Flying -- The Holy Grail of Academic Aeromobility -- Ending the Romance -- The Beginning of the End -- References -- 2: The Carbon Footprint of Travelling to International Academic Conferences and Options to Minimise It -- Introduction: Transportation as an Important Field of Action Against Global Warming -- Conferences as Part of the Academic World -- The Example: ECPR General Conferences 2013-2020 -- Method -- Calculating the Travel Distances -- Emission Factors -- A Realistic Estimation: Who Flies, Who Travels by Coach or Train? -- Estimation of Carbon Footprint: Baseline Results -- Total Emissions -- Emissions Per Participant -- Estimating the Impact of Carbon Reduction Measures for Academic Conferences -- Choosing More Central Conference Venues -- Promoting Low-Emission Travel Options -- Hybrid Conferences as an Alternative to Regular Attendance -- Combined Effects of All Three Actions -- The Carbon Footprint of Online Conferences: The Example of the Virtual ECPR GC 2020 -- For Comparison: Other Possible Actions to Reduce Conference Emissions -- Conclusion and Recommendations for Concrete Actions -- References -- 3: The End of Flying: Coronavirus Confinement, Academic (Im)mobilities and Me -- Introduction: The Hypermobile Academic -- Coming Clean: My Academic CO2 Footprint -- The Value Proposition of Academic Travel -- The Virtues of Virtual Mobilities -- Conclusion: Flying After the End of Flying -- Appendix: Itinerarium vitae of Mimi Sheller, 2010-2020 -- References -- 4: The Absent Presence of Aeromobility: A Case of Australian Academic Air Travel Practices and University Policy -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework -- Methods -- Mobile Academics
- Absent Presence in University Internationalisation -- Absent Presence in University Sustainability Policy -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: How Environmentally Sustainable Is the Internationalisation of Higher Education? A View from Australia -- Introduction -- Australian Universities and the Sustainability Imperative -- Air Travel on the Part of University Staff -- Air Travel on the Part of University Students -- Australian Universities in the Aftermath of COVID-19 -- A Case Study from the University of Melbourne -- Air Travel on the Part of University Staff -- Sustainability Policy on Staff Air Travel at the University of Melbourne -- Observations at Two University of Melbourne Events -- Air Travel on Part of University of Melbourne Students -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Who Gets to Fly? -- The Challenge of the Century -- Reducing CO2 Emissions in Academia -- Reducing Flying at KTH -- Material Visualisations -- Inequalities in Flight Distribution at KTH -- Discussion -- References -- 7: Exceptionalism and Evasion: How Scholars Reason About Air Travel -- Background -- Method and Context of Study -- Findings: Specific Solutions and General Inertia -- Suggestions to Change -- Arguments of Inertia -- Agency -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 8: Academic Aeromobility in the Global Periphery -- Introduction -- Aeromobility in the Global Academic Periphery -- Empirical Materials -- Results -- Complex Drivers -- Selective Substitution -- 'Don't weaken me!' -- Assorted Scalar Accountabilities -- The COVID-19 Acceleration -- Conferences Reimagined: Entrenching a Post-COVID New Normal -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: The Virus and the Elephant in the Room: Knowledge, Emotions and a Pandemic-Drivers to Reducing Flying in Academia -- Theoretical Background -- The Swedish Case and the Rise of the Flight Shame Debate
- What Makes Scientists Reduce Flying? -- Climate Awareness and Sorrow as Incentives to Reduce -- Individual Responsibility and the Forced Air Travel Stop -- A New Virus and New Travel Habits -- Flying Less Affects Personal Life More than Career -- COVID-19 as a Testbed and Tipping Point: Academic Flying in a Post-pandemic World -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 10: Decarbonising Academia's Flyout Culture -- Introduction -- Academic Flight -- The Extent and Impact of Academic Flying -- Pressures to Decarbonise and the Role of Flying in Those Efforts -- Six Values of Flyout Culture -- Value of Ideas -- Value of Efficiency -- Value of Quality -- Value of Evaluation -- Value of Recreation -- Value of Status -- How Flyout Culture Might Change -- Buying Carbon Offsets -- Shifting Travel Modes -- Centralised, Infrequent or Slow Conferencing -- Virtual Communication -- What New Values Might Arise? -- Value of Localism -- Value of Climate Concern -- Value of Emissions Transparency -- Value of Verification -- What Might Be Gained and What Might Be Lost -- How Flyout Culture Might Resist Change -- Conclusion -- References -- 11: Aeromobilities and Academic Work -- Introduction -- Global Work and Aeromobilities -- The Change in Academic Work -- Why Do Academics Travel? -- The Need for Co-presence and Face-to-Face Talks -- Facing the Conference -- Aeromobility: Freedom to Travel? -- Do Meetings Have a Future? -- Aeromobility Management: A Way to Work with Air Travel and Meeting Demands at Universities -- Conclusion and Perspectives -- References -- 12: Means and Meanings of Research Collaboration in the Face of a Suffering Earth: A Landscape of Questions -- Introduction: Where on Earth Are We? -- The Importance of Academic Collaboration and Expertise (Erkenntnis)