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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

by Shahnaz Habib

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Paperback · 288 pages Catapult · 2024

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Airplane Mode

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence

This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change?


The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.

For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this insightful debut parses who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience. All the while, Habib threads the historic but ever-evolving dynamics of travel into her personal history as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom round trips are an annual fact of life.

Woven throughout the book are inviting and playful analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artifacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism—but as any traveler knows, travel is more than that. As an immigrant whose loved ones live across continents, Habib takes a deeply curious and joyful look at a troubled and beloved activity.

The book, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781646222391 in Paperback by Shahnaz Habib may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.

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Publisher
Catapult
Author
Shahnaz Habib
Format
Paperback
Published
Dec 3, 2024
ISBN-13
9781646222391
ISBN-10
1646222393
Pages
288
Carton quantity
36 copies
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