Airport City: Heston 129 Chapter Five Airport City Heston Most people who ever see Heston do so at about one thousand feet above the ground, almost at the end of the 25-mile-long glidepath that brings planes from Catford in south-east London down on to the twin Heathrow runways. And of course they do not know it is Heston, because it does not identify itself. Later on a few of them, using the old A4 as an alternative to the crowded M4 to get into London, may actually pass through the middle of it. But again, since it does not aggressively advertise its
As we shift our attention from plasma to vomit, it is important to remember at the outset that there is no overarching grand narrative of ‘fluids’. Different fluids operate and affect international politics and security differently. In this chapter, I follow vomit through airport exit-screening assemblages during the 2013–16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa in order to determine how and why vomit is constructed as a security threat in these practices, and what forms of politics follow from this production of vomit. While the movement of plasma in the US
, as well as growing scientific evidence of the impact of flying on rising carbon emissions and climate change. As researchers in the field of aviation policy and politics for more than 25 years, we have become increasingly frustrated at how governments have persistently backed the expansion of the aviation industry, while fuelling the ideological and fantasmatic narratives of ‘technological fixes’ and ‘sustainable aviation’ in their efforts to defuse persistent opposition to airport expansion. Our book thus sheds light on the technologies and techniques that have
cases of British Columbia’s fast ferries and the Sydney Airport Rail Link, we develop a scenario in which policy failure leads not to policy learning but rather to deliberately increased failure. While democratic governments have long been thought to endeavour to improve social outcomes, at least for particular groups or individuals (Downs, 1962 ), in some cases incentives can exist for governments to do more harm than good. To this end, we will examine two cases of policy failure in the late 1990s in the transportation sector. The first case explores an effort by
71 Policy & Politics • vol 45 • no 1 • 71–85 • © Policy Press 2017 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14748942689774 British Columbia’s fast ferries and Sydney’s Airport Link: partisan barriers to learning from policy failure Joshua Newman, joshua.newman@flinders.edu.au Flinders University, Australia Malcolm G. Bird, m.bird@uwinnipeg.ca University of Winnipeg, Canada Policy learning, where experiences from other jurisdictions and time periods inform decision making, has been
‘Staying grounded’ captures one of the central concerns of this book: our critique and evaluation of the dominant discourses of airport expansion in the UK and across the globe, where the growth of the aviation industry, despite its accelerating contribution to rising carbon emissions, is universally supported and promoted by most governments and states. Our book has investigated the efforts by the UK state, the aviation industry and public authorities to sponsor the industry over many decades, often in the face of hostile protests and political campaigning
‘illegal’ because the government had failed to take adequate account of the impact of aviation emissions from expansion on its commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement and the UK target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 ( Carrington, 2020 ). The Conservative government, led by Boris Johnson, who was a strong opponent of Heathrow expansion when Mayor of London, made it clear that it would not appeal the ruling, and so it was left to Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) to challenge the verdict ( Xie and Baynes, 2020 ). The proposed third runway was effectively stalled
The victory of campaigners against the planned Heathrow expansion in the Court of Appeal in February 2020 came almost a month before the UK entered its first lockdown to combat rising COVID-19 infections within its population. The collapse of international travel following the pandemic had severe repercussions across the aviation industry, with unprecedented collapses in passenger numbers, the grounding of airlines and closing of runways, bringing waves of job losses in airlines and airports. In April 2020, scheduled flights in the UK fell by 92.6 per cent
This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political opposition and the negative impact of flying on local communities and climate change.
Its genealogical investigations show how governmental practices and technologies designed to depoliticise aviation and expand airports have generally failed to constitute an effective political will to counter community resistance and environmental protest. Criticising the dominant logics of UK airport expansion, the authors promote a radical rethinking of our attitudes to aviation in terms of sufficiency, degrowth and alternative hedonism, laying the ground for a more sustainable future.
supporting papers are characterised by several recurring themes. First, the issue of airport capacity, and particularly its shortage in south east England, has dominated government thinking. Second, there remains an uneasy and unresolved conflict between controlling the environmental costs of civil aviation, the fastest growing source of carbon emissions, and fostering its contribution to the UK national and regional economies. Meanwhile, the entire supply side of the air transport industry has been revolutionised by: the growth of low-cost carriers (LCCs); their
