Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2020.1764261
Title: Aeromobilities' extra-sectoral costs: a methodological reorientation
Authors: Lin, Weiqiang 
Harris, Tina
Keywords: Aeromobilities
Civil aviation
Extra-sectoral costs
Methodological reorientation
Infrastructure
Labour
Political economy
Issue Date: 17-May-2020
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Citation: Lin, Weiqiang, Harris, Tina (2020-05-17). Aeromobilities' extra-sectoral costs: a methodological reorientation. MOBILITIES. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2020.1764261
Abstract: © 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. For over a decade, scholars have graced a number of aeromobilities’ socio-cultural dimensions, from being in an airport to commanding an aeroplane. Yet, while this work has heightened appreciations of the political nature of aerial worlds, the propensity has been to focus on the immediate arrangements and politics related to flight. Using civil aviation as an example, this article offers a methodological reorientation and conceptual rethink of how aeromobilities’ (re)production invokes far-reaching political economies in excess of the core activity of aerial conveyances. It seeks to open up worldly webs of iniquitous movements and relations that make aerial life–rather than flying per se–possible in the first place. Interspersing a selection of our research with extant literature, reports and statistics, the article outlines, in coincidence with our earlier findings, two ways in which civil aviation has thus incurred extensive extra-sectoral costs: the material mobilisation of resources for air infrastructures, and the mobilisation of populations and labour for aeromobile development. The discussion aims ultimately to promote a more nuanced understanding of the constituents, and costs, of moving in the present age.
Source Title: MOBILITIES
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/171678
ISSN: 17450101
1745011X
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1764261
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