Flight shame

Steven Griggs and David Howarth

A chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society, 2025, pp 154-155 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry introduces and critically evaluates the concept of flight shame and campaigns of flight shaming. It examines the contested characterisation and impacts of flight shame on air travel and attitudes towards aviation and its growing contribution to climate change emissions. It discusses how flight shame translates (or not) into changed behaviours towards flying, before assessing strategies of flight shaming and challenges to the aviation industry. Importantly, it concludes that experiences of flight shame open up the potential for a critical disconnect between embedded policy discourses of aviation expansion and shifting attitudes and practices within society.

Keywords: Flight shame; Environmental guilt; Air travel; Climate change; Public perceptions; Travel behaviours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330515
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