Description
Book SynopsisTaking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. Concerned with the politics and social justice issues of travel and mobility, it examines the passenger and their experience of the airport, fellow passengers, flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, and response to the issue of air travel sustainability. It explores the diverse experiences of those with a disability or fear of flying. The volume brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour where, traditionally, the focus has been the destination experience. The book will be of interest to scholars from a range of social science disciplines and fields of study including tourism studies, mobility studies, cultural studies, and disability studies.
Trade ReviewAs the first to discuss the lived experience of air passengers and, especially, their in-flight experience, this is a genuinely ground-breaking book. Given the centrality of air travel to modern mobilities, this collection will quickly become a key contribution to the new critical mobilities work focussed on power relations and inequalities. * Nigel Morgan, University of Surrey, UK *
A very thought-provoking book. It makes you critically reflect on air travel passengers’ embodied and emotional practices in contested spaces. It unpacks air travel as a site of power, resistance, rights and responsibilities. By bringing in Covid-19 and the complex matter of mobility justice, it is a timely contribution to tourism theory. * Bente Heimtun, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway *
The various authors, primarily business and tourism researchers at institutions in Australia and New Zealand, make an important contribution to the literature on the passenger experience of global air travel. Many topics this volume explores have received relatively little attention in tourism studies, in which the focus is more often on destinations or on motivational factors. Students and researchers will therefore find value in the quality information this volume offers.
* T. Bottorff, University of Central Florida, USA, CHOICE connect, May 2023 Vol. 60 No. 9 *
Table of ContentsContributors
Chapter 1. Jennie Small: Introduction
Chapter 2. Erwin Losekoot and Jennie Small: The Airport Experience
Chapter 3. Jennie Small: Passenger–Passenger Interaction
Chapter 4. Jennie Small: Flying and Appearance
Chapter 5. Simon Darcy, Jennie Small and Barbara Almond: Flying into Uncertainty: Part 1 – Flying with Mobility Disability
Chapter 6. Jennie Small, Alison McIntosh, Barbara Almond and Simon Darcy: Flying into Uncertainty: Part 2 – Flying with Non-Mobility Disabilities
Chapter 7. Jennie Small and Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten: Fear of Flying
Chapter 8. James Higham and Martin Young: The Flyers’ Dilemma: Confronting the Negative Psychological Effects of Air Passenger Travel
Chapter 9. Jennie Small: Epilogue
Index
