Current Research Projects of The Cultural Geography Group
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Home Turf - An integrated approach to Dutch raised bogs
- By dr. Roy van Beek - This NWO-Vidi-project analyses the long-term development of raised bogs in the northeastern, eastern and southern parts of the... -
Discrimination, Discourses, and Disruptive effects: Analysing weblogs on the refugee crisis
- In the first nine months of 2015 it is estimated that more than 464,000 people from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia crossed into Europe by sea... -
Cultural geographies of sound
- By Karolina Doughty - How does music and sound connect people to the diverse places and spaces of everyday life? In what ways do sound and music... -
The strange place called ‘our half of the city’: identity, place and landscape in divided Mostar
- By Ana Aceska - The aim of this project is to critically examine and juxtapose two often separated research objectives: on the one hand, it looks at... -
Transnational Health and Social Care Arrangements
- By dr. Meghann Ormond - The transnational health and social care arrangements project looks at how different transnationally mobile populations’... -
Therapeutic landscapes and blue space
- By Karolina Doughty - This research network explores open water swimming in relation to wellbeing and contemporary cultures of health, including... -
Tourism and sustainable development
- Tourism is increasingly put forward by international, national and local nature conservation and development organizations, governments and the... -
The Camp
- Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments - including concentration, detention, transit, identification, refugee, military and... -
Natural Environments and Interracial/Interethnic Interactions among Immigrants: A Cross-country Study
- By dr. Karin Peters - The goal of this study is to investigate the roles of natural environments in interracial/ interethnic interactions and in the... -
Moroccan Dreams: colonial and post-colonial landscapes
- By prof. Claudio Minca & dr. Lauren Wagner - We examine the role of the Protectorate government, particularly as it was designed and led by...