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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | The End of Travel?
Description: Recorded October 27, 2020.
A talk by Professor Michael Cronin (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.
The future of travel is central to contemporary debates about pandemics and ‘flight shaming’. The nature and status of travel as an absolute right or unquestionable good are being called into question in the context of globalized infectious diseases and well-publicised evidence pointing to the prohibitive ecological costs of mass air travel. The lecture will explore a number of interpretive frameworks from critical ecology to travel writing and translation studies that...