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
Thursday 23 January 2025
GEO@CSPS Lecture Camille Seaman: Connection & Purpose
Gaia 2 | 15:30-17:00 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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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. -
Tourism content on Twitter (X) during a crisis
Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights (2024), Volume: 5, Issue: 2 - ISSN 2666-9579 -
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London
Urban Studies (2024), Volume: 61, Issue: 10 - ISSN 0042-0980 - p. 1951-1967. -
Beyond the smile: the infrapolitics of the host in volunteer tourism
Tourism, Culture & Communication (2024), Volume: 24, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1098-304X - p. 95-106. -
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories
Tourism Geographies (2024) - ISSN 1461-6688 -
“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. -
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce
Environment and history (2024), Volume: 30, Issue: 2 - ISSN 0967-3407 - p. 211-240. -
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 -
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. -
The sounds of who we are : rethinking divided cities through sound
Urban Geography (2024), Volume: 45, Issue: 8 - ISSN 0272-3638 - p. 1371-1384.