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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Main Authors: Bjørkdahl, Kristian, Franco Duharte, Adrian Santiago
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature 2022
Springer Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:1
Subjects:
academic communication
academic conferences
academic flying
academic institutions
Air travel
carbon footprint
climate change
Communication in learning and scholarship
communication technology
COVID-19
Cultural and media studies
Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
Education
Geography
Human geography
Media studies
mobilities
new mobilities paradigm
Nonfiction
open access
Science
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Sociology
Sociology and anthropology
sustainability
university administrators
ISBN:9789811649110, 9811649111, 9811649103, 9789811649103
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:Electronic reproduction. Dordrecht: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
ISBN:9789811649110
9811649111
9811649103
9789811649103
DOI:10.1007/978-981-16-4911-0