Binge flying: Behavioural addiction and climate change
By S. Cohen, J. Higham, C. T. Cavaliere. 2011
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Recent popular press suggests that ‘binge flying’ constitutes a new site of behavioural addiction. We theoretically appraise and empirically support this proposition through interviews with consumers in Norway and the United Kingdom conducted in 2009. Consistent findings from across two national contexts evidence a growing negative discourse towards frequent short-haul tourist air travel and illustrate strategies of guilt suppression and denial used to span a cognitive dissonance between the short-term personal benefits of tourism and the air travel’s associated long-term consequences for climate change. Tensions between tourism consumption and changing social norms towards acceptable flying practice exemplify how this social group is beginning to (re)frame what constitutes ‘excessive’ holiday flying, despite concomitantly continuing their own frequent air travels.
Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Climate change, tourist air travel and radical emissions reduction (2016, background): “The response of governments has been to encourage voluntary public behaviour change towards lower carbon lifestyles (Barr et al., 2011); an approach that has failed to gain traction in the context of discretionary tourist air travel (Cohen et al., 2011; Miller et al., 2010).”
- Exploring people's viewpoints on air travel and climate change: understanding inconsistencies (2013, methodology): “To identify the concourse, statements were selected from previous qualitative studies (Barr et al., 2010; Becken, 2004, 2007; Cohen & Higham, 2011; Cohen et al., 2011; Dickinson et al., 2010; Hares et al., 2009; Higham & Cohen, 2011; Lassen, 2010; Miller et al., 2010; Randles & Mander, 2009) and…”