Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic

Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic

by Christopher Schaberg
Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic

Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic

by Christopher Schaberg

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781452965918
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 12/08/2020
Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 92
File size: 300 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Sit Down, Be Humble

Flyover

The 30,000-foot View

The Flying-V

Dwell Time

Ode to Empty Airports

Grounded

Once upon a Time . . .

Acknowledgments

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