Research of Cultural Geography
The Cultural Geography Group (GEO) highly values interdisciplinarity, which encompasses scholars with diverse backgrounds in human geography, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, social- and environmental psychology, planning and governance studies, feminist studies, and science and technology studies.
Our shared focus is on understanding the interactions between humans and their 'natural and cultural' environments, with a collective aspiration to foster a more just and environmentally sustainable society. A significant portion of our work converges around shared themes that can be broadly categorised into three interconnected research clusters:
- Landscapes (as seen, experienced, and used)
- Mobilities and Placemaking
- Earth and Environment
The group's research can be broadly categorised into these three clusters, each encompassing related sub-fields. These clusters are not based on individual affiliations but rather on actual research projects undertaken by staff members. Consequently, many staff members contribute to themes spanning multiple clusters. Most GEO staff broadly identify with post-structuralism, and/or other critical-constructive paradigms, like feminism and posthumanism and while we do employ more conventional qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, such as surveys, we aspire to become the leading group investigating 'experimental methods', including counter-mapping, transformative learning as a method, visual methodologies, experimenting with virtual reality, futuring and other innovative approaches.
Landscapes (as seen, experienced and used)
- Psychological and social aspects of landscape, nature and wildlife: real and/or virtual perception, experience
- Meaning, uses
- Heritage: diversity and social inclusion linked to negotiation and construction of cultural heritage
- Health, care and well-being
- Geographies of the margins
- Animal politics, agricultural technologies and rewilding geographies
- Critical feminist approaches to labour practices, collaboration and resource distribution
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Mobilities and Placemaking
- Mobility regimes
- Subject formation and power: 'tourists', 'migrants', 'refugees', 'enslaved', 'elderly', 'youth'
- Migration, leisure and transnational mobility
- Tourism and the postcolonial
- Precarious labour, migrant workers
- Mobilities: borders and migration, travel and tourism
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Earth and Environment
- Planetary survival and care
- Earthly attachments
- Climate justice, obstruction and activism
- Radical sustainability, sustainable tourism
- Circular society: fashion, food, skill, etc.
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Cultural Geography
The Cultural Geography group, led by Edward Huijbens, is committed to social theory in all its spatial articulations.
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