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Title

Slow Academic Travel: An Antidote to "Fly Over" Scholarship in the Age of Climate Crisis.

Authors

Conti, Meredith

Abstract

Meredith Conti Theatre Topics, Volume 31, Number 1, March 2021, pp. 17-29 (Article) Published by Johns Hopkins University Press For additional information about this article [ Access provided at 27 Mar 2021 06:41 GMT from Ebsco Publishing ] https://muse.jhu.edu/article/786251 17 Slow Academic T ravel: An Antidote to "Fly Over" Scholarship in the Age of Climate Crisis Meredith Conti The bison were not cooperating. Of the initiatives aimed at reducing academic travel's carbon footprint helmed by US-based activists, several attempt to draw climate-conscious faculty and graduate students into a transinstitutional collective, including No Fly Climate Sci and Flying Less. Because of this, I encourage tenured, tenure-track, and other securely employed, risk-tolerant, and/or well-compensated academics to take on the early efforts of decarbonizing professional travel while rigorously advocating for climate-friendly travel resources for graduate students and scholars with precarious appointments. I use the term slow academic travel to describe a speed of traversing spaces (customarily resulting from avoiding air travel) in pursuit of professional opportunities and obligations and a consonant approach to intellectual work that capitalizes on ground travel's spatiotemporal variations.

Subjects

SCHOLARSHIPS; CLIMATE change & health; CITY dwellers; TRAVEL hygiene

Publication

Theatre Topics, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 1, p17

ISSN

1054-8378

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1353/tt.2021.0009