Grounded by Christopher Schaberg

Grounded by Christopher Schaberg

As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic considers the time leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing global plummet in commercial flight. Mobility studies scholar Christopher Schaberg tours the newly opened airport terminal outside of New Orleans (MSY) in late 2019, and goes on to survey the broad cultural landscape of empty airports and grounded planes in the early months of the novel coronavirus’s spread in 2020. The book culminates in a reflection on the future of air travel: what may unfold, and what parts of commercial flight are almost certainly relics of the past. Grounded blends journalistic reportage with cultural theory and philosophical inquiry in order to offer graspable insights as well as a stinging critique of contemporary air travel.

Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University and author of five books, including The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth and Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental Humanities.

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ISBN 13	9781517912024
ISBN 10	1517912024
Titel	Grounded
Autor	Christopher Schaberg
Serie	Forerunners: Ideas First
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-12-08
Seitenanzahl	92
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