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
Lunch Lecture Dr. Liang He
"Advancing Sustainable Agriculture through Realistic 3D Visualization of Smart Irrigation Systems"
📅 Date: Thursday February 20th 2025🕛 Time: 12:00 – 13:00📍 Location: Lumen 2 + online
Please bring your own lunch and join us for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking session!
------------------------------------------Critical Tourism Studies | April 2025
Join our spring edition! More info here.
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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Disabilities, functionings and capabilities : the capability approach in accessible tourism
Current Issues in Tourism (2025), Volume: 28, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1368-3500 - p. 272-286. -
River co-learning arenas : principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action
Local Environment (2025), Volume: 30, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1354-9839 - p. 58-80. -
The spatial narratives and representation of slavery and colonial heritage on guided tours in Amsterdam
Journal of Heritage Tourism (2025), Volume: 20, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1743-873X - p. 59-77. -
Haunted by hunting : A landscape geneology of the biopolitics, necropolitics, and sovereign power of red deer and wild boar management at the Veluwe
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2025) - ISSN 2514-8486 -
‘Carving space’ for comradeship? Para-legal performance and climate justice in the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2025) - ISSN 2399-6544 -
The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices : A randomized pilot study
PLoS ONE (2025), Volume: 20 - ISSN 1932-6203 -
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 -
Values and Principles in the Antarctic Treaty and the Environmental Protocol : An Overview and Categorization
The Yearbook of Polar Law (2024), Volume: 15, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1876-8814 - p. 285-308. -
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), Volume: 23, Issue: 3 - ISSN 1472-4049 - p. 480-494. -
“We Closed Down Mpape on the Judgement Day” : Resistance and Place-Making in Urban Informal Settlements in Abuja, Nigeria
Urban Forum (2024), Volume: 35, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1015-3802 - p. 179-195.