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.
Unfortunately, your cookie settings do not allow the social media element to be displayed. check your settings.
Follow us on Mastodon or Bluesky: @Cultural_Geography_Group_WUR@mastodon.social / @culturalgeography.bsky.social
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
WUR Women’s History Walk Walking a mile in WUR Women’s shoes
Time: Tuesday 23 April, 15.00 (weather permitting) Start: Old Aula, downtown Wageningen (next to Hotel de Wereld)
Let us walk the talk instead of gathering for a lecture. You are welcome to join!
Margreet van der Burg, gender historian will be our guide and she will share background stories of the addresses we pass in the city centre of Wageningen. Margreet is the lead author with Marian Bos-Boers and 40 former WU students and scientists of the 2003 book Vrouwen, Wageningen en de Wereld. Wetenschap, studie en loopbaan, 1918-2003 (Women, Wageningen and the World. Science, study and career, 1918-2003).
After the walk, we can chat with tea together at THUIS, Stationsstraat 32.
Please register here: https://forms.gle/gRDtUwFCuLDipafaA Maximum number: 15
We will contact you before 20 April.This event is supported by the Gender and Diversity cluster at the Center for Space, Place and Society at Wageningen University.
CSPS
- Unfortunately, your cookie settings do not allow videos to be displayed. - check your settings
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
-
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London
Urban Studies (2024) - ISSN 0042-0980 -
Tourism content on Twitter (X) during a crisis
Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights (2024), Volume: 5, Issue: 2 -
Exploring social media as a tool for disentangling cultural ecosystem service values of whale-watching to inform environmental judgements and ethics : the case of Húsavík, Iceland
Journal of Ecotourism (2024) - ISSN 1472-4049 -
The making of urban informal settlements : Critical junctures and path dependency in governing Abuja, Nigeria
Cities (2024), Volume: 147 - ISSN 0264-2751 -
Toward Antarctification? Tourism and place-making in Antarctica
Polar Geography (2024) - ISSN 1088-937X -
Disabilities, functionings and capabilities : the capability approach in accessible tourism
Current Issues in Tourism (2024) - ISSN 1368-3500 -
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana
Tourism Geographies (2024), Volume: 26, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1461-6688 - p. 120-139. -
Apprehending Land Value Through Tourism in Indonesia : Commodification of Rural Landscapes Through Geoparks
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (2024), Volume: 115, Issue: 1 - ISSN 0040-747X - p. 170-186. -
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce
Environment and history (2023) - ISSN 0967-3407 -
De angst voor emotie : Kennis over emotie kan natuurbeheer rationeler maken
Landschap : tijdschrift voor landschapsecologie en milieukunde (2023), Volume: 10, Issue: 3 - ISSN 0169-6300 - p. 109-117.