Practising academic mobilities

Bodies, networks and institutional rhythms

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4716232
AutoresDebbie Hopkins (0000-0002-7778-8989, School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford Oxford UK, autor de correspondencia), John Higham (0000-0003-1405-7035, Department of Tourism University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand), Caroline Orchiston (0000-0002-3171-2006, Centre for Sustainability University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand), Tara Duncan (0000-0003-1845-7001, Dalarna University Falun Sweden)
Año2019
Volumen185
Número4
Páginas472-484
Fecha de publicación2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/geoj.12301
OpenAlexW2945552674
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas43

Notions of what a successful academic should be doing - researching, publishing, teaching, serving the academic community - are often dependent upon particular practices of corporeal mobilities. These practices discursively and materially connect historically situated academic mobilities with the "modern," globalised university system. At the same time, there is increasing attention being paid to the "hypocrisy of hypermobile academics" - often reliant on high-carbon aeromobilities - in light of the unprecedented and urgent need to decarbonise transport to limit warming to 1.5°C. Using qualitative material gathered from one academic institution in Aotearoa New Zealand, we pay attention to the politics of academic mobilities at multiple scales, from the academic body, to social/family networks, and institutional rhythms. We contribute to the growing body of work that reflects on academic practice, and argue that detailed understandings of these processes are required to overcome the so-called "climate hypocrisy" of high-carbon academic work-related travel

Aotearoa · Hypocrisy · Institution · Media studies · Mobilities · Political science · Politics · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Conferences and Exhibitions Management · Gender Studies · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development