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Recently completed doctorates in social and cultural geography

During the last 100 years, aviation has developed into an established mode of transportation serving millions of customers every year, but while researchers from other disciplines—notably sociology, cultural history and anthropology—have begun to appreciate the multiple dimensions of flight, geographers have written surprisingly little on the subject beyond quantitative analysis of airline networks. While perhaps understandable in the present geopolitical climate of passenger insecurity and commercial confidentiality, this nevertheless means that many of the industry’s significant facets have yet to be adequately charted. Considering geography’s rich heritage of examining space, place and landscape, this thesis provides a distinctive contribution to theoretical and empirical knowledge by addressing the multiple geographies of airspace. Set in the ongoing controversy concerning the reorganization of flightpaths at Nottingham East Midlands Airport (now East Midlands Airport) in the UK, it considers the inherently geographical—and contested— nature of airspace production. By detailing the complex interplay between how airspace is produced ‘on the ground’ by those who oppose its use, and ‘in the air’ by Air Traffic Controllers and airline pilots, it offers a new perspective for studies of geography and air transport in an age of mass aeromobility.