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dc.contributor.authorHales, Robert
dc.contributor.authorCaton, Kellee
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-14T05:36:30Z
dc.date.available2017-08-14T05:36:30Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn1468-7976
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1468797616685650
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/344006
dc.description.abstractThis article offers a reading of proximity ethics as a novel way of understanding the moral dilemmas that underpin decisions of whether or not to fly. The question of why people fly, despite holding pro-environmental attitudes and knowing that their behaviour, in contradiction, is harming the earth they value, is not an easy one to answer. Through a co-constructed narrative method, we examine our own flying activity in relation to the proximal ethical decisions in the intersection of family, social and work domains. Our stories highlight that the tensions between normative positions on climate change and travel activities are bound up in the ethical proximal relations that compel intimate contact with others, create the need for face-to-face contact and impel obligation in family/work/social domains in a globalised world. Proximity ethics illuminates the flyer’s dilemma as a complex and tenuous web of moral decisions, in which care and proximity play key roles in guiding actions. The contribution of this article lies in its exploration of the quandaries of human behaviour associated with climate change mitigation, using moral philosophy as a window of understanding onto our increasingly technological and hypermobile world.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom94
dc.relation.ispartofpageto113
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalTourist Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume17
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAnthropology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode150699
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1506
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1601
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1608
dc.titleProximity ethics, climate change and the flyer’s dilemma: Ethical negotiations of the hypermobile traveller
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHales, Robert J.


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