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"About the Book ""Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. It brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour, traditionally focused on the destination experience""-- Book Synopsis Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. It brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour, traditionally focused on the destination experience. Review Quotes The various authors, primarily business and tourism researchers at institutions in Australia and New Zealand, make an important contribution to the literature on the passenger experience of global air travel. Many topics this volume explores have received relatively little attention in tourism studies, in which the focus is more often on destinations or on motivational factors. Students and researchers will therefore find value in the quality information this volume offers. A very thought-provoking book. It makes you critically reflect on air travel passengers' embodied and emotional practices in contested spaces. It unpacks air travel as a site of power, resistance, rights and responsibilities. By bringing in Covid-19 and the complex matter of mobility justice, it is a timely contribution to tourism theory. As the first to discuss the lived experience of air passengers and, especially, their in-flight experience, this is a genuinely ground-breaking book. Given the centrality of air travel to modern mobilities, this collection will quickly become a key contribution to the new critical mobilities work focussed on power relations and inequalities. About the Author Jennie Small is an Adjunct Fellow of the Management Department, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her research interest is tourist behaviour from a Critical Tourism perspective with a focus on gender, age, embodiment, disability and mobility, and how these relate to the tourist experience."
