Cultural Geography Group
The Cultural Geography (GEO) chair group is committed to social theory in all its spatial articulations. The group advances creative, critical-constructive scholarship through exploring the ecological and social challenges facing all life on earth.
Researching space, place and culture, engaging with current, historic and future dynamics of societies globally, the group pays special attention to questions of inequality, exclusion, mobility, plurality along with deploying critical tourism studies to all aspects of social and environmental sciences, unravelling relational complexities in wilderness to urban settings. Thereby the group translates knowledge into practical action in four closely related fields of application. These are: health & care, tourism, nature and landscape.
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The Cultural Geography Group
Atlas member
We are a member of The Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS). ATLAS was established in 1991 to develop transnational educational and research initiatives in tourism and leisure and currently has members in about 60 countries. ATLAS provides a forum to promote staff and student exchange, transnational research and to facilitate curriculum and professional development.
Announcements & Events
22 November 2024: Cultural Geography - Future Prospects, Critical Edges and Activist Academia - Symposium & workshop (in person only)
Location: Impulse Building, Stippeneng 2, Wageningen, Room NcountR
Time: 10:00 - 16:00 including *lunch and drinks afterwards. See image for more info.
*For lunch registration please use this link.
Tuesday 26 november 2024: Symposium Paul Peeters
Wageningen Campus, Gaia Building, Room GAIA 1&2, 15:00 - 17:00 hrs. See more info in our news item on this page.
Tourism for Good podcast
A podcast hosted by Meghann Ormond and MTO alumna Alejandro Guijo Bermejo where they explore the development of more sustainable and responsible tourism practices around the world. Listen and follow on Spotify.
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Tourism@WUR
For the urgent challenges within the domain of tourism, there are no clear-cut solutions. However, by executing high-quality scientific research, helping to translate our knowledge into practice worldwide and by training professionals and students, we aim to contribute to sustainable tourism development.
Latest articles in refereed journals
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Creating Kaveri Delta beneath our feet : An experiment in grounding socio-hydrology in Tamil Nadu, India
Journal of Hydrology (2024), Volume: 644 - ISSN 0022-1694 -
Tourism content on Twitter (X) during a crisis
Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights (2024), Volume: 5, Issue: 2 - ISSN 2666-9579 -
Exploring social media as a tool for disentangling cultural ecosystem service values of whale-watching to inform environmental judgements and ethics : the case of Húsavík, Iceland
Journal of Ecotourism (2024) - ISSN 1472-4049 -
Toward Antarctification? Tourism and place-making in Antarctica
Polar Geography (2024), Volume: 47, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1088-937X - p. 49-70. -
The landscape is a trap : Duck decoys as multispecies atmospheres of deception and betrayal
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2024), Volume: 49, Issue: 3 - ISSN 0020-2754 -
Apprehending Land Value Through Tourism in Indonesia : Commodification of Rural Landscapes Through Geoparks
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (2024), Volume: 115, Issue: 1 - ISSN 0040-747X - p. 170-186. -
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana
Tourism Geographies (2024), Volume: 26, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1461-6688 - p. 120-139. -
Disabilities, functionings and capabilities : the capability approach in accessible tourism
Current Issues in Tourism (2024) - ISSN 1368-3500 -
The sounds of who we are : rethinking divided cities through sound
Urban Geography (2024), Volume: 45, Issue: 8 - ISSN 0272-3638 - p. 1371-1384. -
Bridging Natural and Cultural Heritage Management : Recommendations for Present and Former Raised Bog Areas
Historic Environment: Policy and Practice (2024), Volume: 15, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1756-7505 - p. 195-220.