
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.
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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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The Spaces and Places of the Tourism Encounter. On Re-Centring the Human in a More-Than/Non-Human World
Humanities (2023), Volume: 12, Issue: 4 - ISSN 2076-0787 -
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 -
Aggregated mental models predict observed outcomes following Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) reintroduction
Journal for Nature Conservation (2023), Volume: 74 - ISSN 1617-1381 -
Drowning landscapes revisited. Correlating peatland expansion, human habitation trends and vegetation dynamics in the Northwest European mainland
Quaternary Science Reviews (2023), Volume: 312 - ISSN 0277-3791 -
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia
Tourism Geographies (2023) - ISSN 1461-6688 -
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 -
Tracing tourism with Bruno Latour : actor-network theory, critical proximity and down to earth
Tourism Geographies (2023), Volume: 25, Issue: 5 - ISSN 1461-6688 - p. 1297-1302. -
‘Wageningen, cherish your activists’ : Letter to the editor
Resource (2023), Volume: 17, Issue: 17 - ISSN 1874-3625 - p. 15-15. -
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. -
Heritage contestation in matterscape, mindscape, and powerscape
Landscape Research (2023) - ISSN 0142-6397