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
Wageningen Geography lecture 8 April 2024
The Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University cordially invites all interested to the Wageningen Geography lecture by Sarah Besky!
🗓 Monday, 8 April 2024
🕓 16:00 – 17:30
📍 Gaia 1 (in-person only)
🥂 Followed by Q&A and drinks
After the Country: On the Economy of Retreat in the Indian Himalaya – by Sarah Besky
Sarah Besky is Associate Professor of the Anthropology of Work in the ILR School at Cornell University. She is the author of The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India (2014) and Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea (2020) both with the University of California Press, as well as the co-editor of How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet (SAR Press, 2019).
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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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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. -
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 -
Disabilities, functionings and capabilities : the capability approach in accessible tourism
Current Issues in Tourism (2024) - ISSN 1368-3500 -
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. -
Toward Antarctification? Tourism and place-making in Antarctica
Polar Geography (2024) - ISSN 1088-937X -
The making of urban informal settlements : Critical junctures and path dependency in governing Abuja, Nigeria
Cities (2024), Volume: 147 - ISSN 0264-2751 -
The landscape is a trap : Duck decoys as multispecies atmospheres of deception and betrayal
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2023) - ISSN 0020-2754 -
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia
Tourism Geographies (2023), Volume: 25, Issue: 8 - ISSN 1461-6688 - p. 1856-1873. -
The embodied absence of the past : Slavery heritage and the transformative memory work of tourism
Annals of Tourism Research (2023), Volume: 101 - ISSN 0160-7383 -
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being : A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan
International Journal of the Commons (2023), Volume: 17, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1875-0281 - p. 125-140.