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Low-Cost Aviation: Aeromobilities Culture, Politics, and Infrastructures covers critical societal issues such as labor regimes, unequal and changing flying publics, transnational dynamics of migration, tourism, business experiences, environmental challenges and shifting territorialities of LCCs at various scales. It situates LCCs holistically within a societal-infrastructural regime rather than solely within a transport context. The book explores the changing nature of passengers' profiles and mobile cultures, new consumption patterns and Economic Re-Configurations, as well as geopolitical and sustainability challenges. Providing a research agenda for aeromobilities, the book examines the most pressing social, cultural and political impacts of LCCs on society in different global contexts.
It bridges transport and mobility studies, fostering transport sustainability and mobility justice to improve air transport management.
List of contents
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Agenda-Setting
Part II: Changing Passenger Profiles and Mobile Cultures
3. Who Are the Flying Publics?
4. Social Ambiguities: Defining experiences for Aeromobilities and Beyond
5. Making Sense of the Aeromobile Ways of Consuming
Part III: New Consumption Patterns and Economic Re-Configurations
6. Democratizing or Splintering Aeromobilities?
7. Migration, Tourism and Business Travel: Three Changing Mobilities
8. Low-Cost Carriers and the Future of Airport Design
9. Flying out of the global city: gentrification and Labor Activism
About the author
Weiqiang Lin, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His work encompasses air transport social-cultural geographical approaches, affect, materiality, practice, assemblage and critical logistics. He is an editorial board member of Mobilities and Section Editor of Transfers (Ideas in Motion).Jean-Baptiste Fretigny, is a transportation researcher specializing in mobilities, tourism, migration, airports at The University of Cergy-Pontoise in Paris.
