Cultural Geography
The Cultural Geography Group (GEO) led by Edward Huijbens advances creative, critical-constructive scholarship by exploring and finding solutions for the ecological and social challenges facing all life on Earth. The GEO mission is to Explore, Analyze, Understand and Enable Transformative Futures. We fulfil this mission by contributing to the social and environmental sciences through impactful outreach and varied publications on broad and diverse fronts. GEO members engage in creative, constructive, and critical scholarship in direct collaboration with stakeholders to envision and enable sustainability transitions and transformations.
Research themes
The Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University is dedicated to creating a space where research and education are both thoughtful and forward-thinking, encouraging creativity and innovation. Our research is focussed on three connected and overlapping research lines:
- Landscape (e.g. experiencing, interpreting and using).
- Mobilities and placemaking (e.g. migration and tourism).
- Earth and environment (e.g. climate justice; earthly attachments and care; spatial cognition).
Questions related to inequality, marginalization, exclusion, and diversity are key within these research lines. While we do employ more conventional qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as surveys, we aspire to become the leading group investigating ‘experimental methods,’ including counter-mapping, transformative learning, visual methodologies, virtual reality, and futuring for change.
Education
Education by Cultural Geography
At the Chair Groups of Wageningen University, we are very passionate about teaching. Our teaching staff is involved in multiple courses on BSc and MSc level for different study programs.
Our courses include aspects of various sciences. In addition, we offer courses that focus on training academic skills, such as writing and debating skills.
Publications & Projects
The fundamental research at Wageningen University & Research is conducted by chair groups. Each chair group, under leadership of a professor, has its own area of expertise. All chair groups share a common research domain: healthy food and living environment. Wageningen University & Research is comprised of one faculty that is divided into five departments.
Projects of this Chair Group cover various topics in its own area of expertise. Outcomes of these studies are regularly published in scientific journals. You can find all publications and projects in Wageningen Library.
Highlighted projects
Chairholder
Edward works on spatial theory, issues of regional development, landscape perceptions, the role of transport in tourism and polar tourism.
People of Cultural Geography
Each chair group of Wageningen University & Research, under leadership of a professor, has its own area of expertise. Meet the people of this Chair Group.
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