This article offers an exploration of the embodied experiences of flying while fat, based on research with a significantly larger group of people than any previous research on this topic. Theoretically, this article advances geographical understandings of fat embodiment and the embodied experience of transport spaces that attend to micropolitical encounters and comfort (Bissell 2008, 2016). In doing so, we develop an approach to understanding the hyperpresence of the fat body within plane space, drawing together Leder’s (1990) work on embodied “dys-appearance” with Ahmed’s (2004, 2006) work on bodily intensities and queer phenomenology. The article explores how material and social aspects of plane space combine to make fat bodies hyperpresent in ways that, for some, limit self-advocacy. We set this in broader political and economic contexts that frame fatness as mutable and that govern access to air travel in ways that are exclusionary for many fat people.

本文基于对比以往任何关于该主题的研究都要多得多的人群进行的研究，对肥胖飞行的具体体验进行了探索。从理论上讲，本文推进了对肥胖具身化的地理理解以及参与微观政治相遇和舒适的交通空间的具身体验（Bissell 2008 , 2016）。在这样做的过程中，我们开发了一种方法来理解平面空间内脂肪体的过度存在，将 Leder ( 1990 ) 与 Ahmed ( 2004 年，2006年) 对具身性“外貌”的研究结合在一起) 研究身体强度和酷儿现象学。这篇文章探讨了平面空间的物质和社会方面如何结合起来，使肥胖的身体以某种方式过度存在，对某些人来说，限制了自我宣传。我们在更广泛的政治和经济背景下设定了这一点，这些背景将肥胖视为可变的，并以许多肥胖者排斥的方式管理航空旅行。