Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel

Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness air-travel by specifically studying obstacles that environmentally conscious face when trying limit or eliminate aeromobility. Through in-depth interviews with Norwegian environmental organization workers – conceptualised as particularly self-reflexive it comes forms consumption we analyse how environmentalists negotiate one most destructive aspects their patterns. To explore social embeddedness flying complicates reduction in these accounts, draw on a combination mobilities and practice approaches. The participants considered be problematic, also necessary specific practices. Various expectations related convenience, time, sociality, led certain ‘lock-in’ (aero)mobility. Zooming out consider broader geographies, argue aeromobility contributes tempo-spatial expansion many practices, changing contents, meanings, contexts which they unfold. achieve sustainable mobility, suggest attention must shifted from air-travels individual practices is embedded.