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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Jun 6

📣 We're hiring! We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate to contribute to a critical understanding of how tourism intersects with slavery and colonial heritage in the context of increasing cultural memory politics.
For more information and how to apply: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Postdoctoral researcher: 'Tourism's intersection with slavery and colonial heritage in the context of cultural memory politics'

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Apr 16

At our Tourism Career Day, our BSc Tourism & MSc Tourism, Society and Environment (MTO) students received a workshop on Soft Skills and Identity Resources from Eva Erdmenger. Cheryl van Adrichem & Maartje Roelofsen shared their experiences on studying on the MTO programme and doing a Tourism PhD.

Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Apr 15

#PhDVacancy
📣 We're hiring! We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate to research at the interface of behavioral science, cultural geography, biodiversity and agriculture, combining behavioral, perceptual, socioeconomic, and systemic perspectives.

➡️ Info www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

PhD position Farmer Perceptions & Decision Making towards Functional AgroBiodiversity for Sustainable Pest Management

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Edward Huijbens @edwardhuijbens.bsky.social · Mar 22

Always a proud moment to graduate a PhD. This dr. Tom Rowe defended his excellent thesis from our @culturalgeography.bsky.social thesis on hope, privilege and climate change

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Making space for hope? Privilege and prefiguration in collective responses to the climate crisis in the Netherlands

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 17

📣 New Publication | Tourism Diversification in Antarctica and New Zealand/Aotearoa’s Sub-Antarctic Islands: Practices as Expressions of Values by Yousra Makanse

Interested to find out more? The chapter can be accessed (open access) here: www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10....

Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 12

📣 Upcoming event | Wageningen Geography Lecture - Prof. Hayden Lorimer: "In This Here Place: Matters of Local and Global Interest in a Public Library"

📅 Date: Thursday 27 March
⏰ Time: 13:30 -15:00
📍 Location: Lumen 1 + online
💻 Online link: tinyurl.com/2w76a7ub

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 11

Upcoming PhD Defence | Eugenie van Heijgen of the Cultural Geography Group will be defending her PhD thesis titled “Hunting Landscapes: a multispecies approach to the present, past and future of hunting in the Netherlands” on Thursday, March 28, 2025, at 10:30 AM. 🎓🎉

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 11

Upcoming PhD Defence | Tom Rowe of the Cultural Geography Group will be defending his PhD thesis titled “𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲? 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀” on Friday, March 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM in the Omnia Auditorium, Wageningen. 🎓🌍

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 5

📣 Upcoming event with Prof. @jennypickerill.bsky.social "'How do we carry on?’ Political activism in an era of uncertainty" | Thursday 20 March 2025 | 12:30 - 17:30 | Location: Thuis Wageningen (Stationsstraat 32, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Info ⬇️
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Event | ‘How do we carry on?’ Political Activism in an Era of Uncertainty – with prof. Pickerill

We are excited to invite you to the PhD defence activities of Tom Rowe, exploring hope, privilege, and prefiguration in climate activism, art, and academia. The two-day programme includes an intera…

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 5

❄️ Dr. Jennifer C. Veilleux at the Cultural Geography group went on her first European winter break in the Swiss Alps. Looking for a break from the torrent of bad news coming from her home country (the USA), she found cause for further distress in the Alps. Read more here: www.wur.nl/en/research-...

A member of GEO went sledging in the Alps to scare themselves distracted from political news and got even more alarmed

Dr. Jennifer C. Veilleux, a newly appointed sector plan recruitment of the Cultural Geography group (GEO) went for her first European winter break. As tradition dictates, the Dutch take to the Alps, m...

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 5

The MSc Tourism, Society and Environment (MTO) programme is characterised by a unique international environment. Many of our students and staff come from different parts of the world! Huixin (Connie) Hu’s perspective on being an (international) MTO student: www.wur.nl/en/education...

Student Huixin (Connie) - MSc Tourism, Society and Environment

Hi, my name is Connie and I am in my second year of the MSc Tourism, Society and Environment. I am from China and I just finished my thesis and am currently finishing my internship. Since I wanted to ...

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 20

At the Film Festival of Blind Walls Gallery in Breda (Netherlands) Bachelor of Tourism students gained inspiration for leisure and tourism activities which thematise controversial art, societal conflicts and protests, as well as hidden (hi)stories. More info on the BSc Tourism: www.bsctourism.com

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 20

Are you a Wageningen University student interested in critically analyzing the intersections of personal, community, and socio-political experiences with narratives and practices of freedom? Join our Capita Selecta Course: Transdisciplinary Pilot Tour Co-Creation for Freedom Tours Wageningen!

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 20

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 20

Op 11 maart (20:00-21:30) brengt Martijn Duineveld ‘klimaatobstructie’ in kaart en laat zien dat niet alleen bedrijven, maar ook universiteiten er onbewust aan meedoen. Filosoof Mario Veen (Hogeschool Utrecht) vertelt hoe subtiel klimaatdesinformatie eigenlijk is. Meer info: sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...

Hoe grote vervuilers klimaatbeleid tegenwerken

Hoe frustreren grote vervuilers klimaatbeleid? Met cultureel geograaf Martijn Duineveld en filosoof Mario Veen.

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 17

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 17

In the newly published book Postcapitalist Countrysides, Chizu Sato @csato.bsky.social (GEO), Nanako Nakamura and Jozelin María Soto Alarcón contributed a chapter on “Rural women’s business-led commoning in Mexico and Japan: A transnational feminist analysis” (OA) uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap...

Postcapitalist Countrysides

Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its ...

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 14

In a newly published chapter Karolina Doughty (GEO) argues that a sense of stillness plays a significant role in how and why certain landscapes are understood and practised as ‘therapeutic’. Read all about it in the new book Designing Therapeutic Environments:
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Designing Therapeutic Environments: Social and Cultural Practice for Health and Well-Being

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being. Therapeutic environments are settings that comprise the physical, ecological, psy...

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 11

Samen met verschillende partners organiseert Karin Peters (GEO) op 17 maart (14:00-17:00) een dialoog over de versnelling van de transitie naar een fossielvrije kledingindustrie. Meer informatie over het evenement en aanmelden kan via de website van Fibershed: fibershed.nl/fibershed-ag...

Toekomst Textiel: Wetenschapswinkel Wageningen

Wetenschapswinkel Wageningen, organiseert een dialoog over de transitie naar een circulaire kledingindustrie van natuurlijke bronnen?

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 6

The tours intend to offer co-created interactive guided walking routes in Wageningen that build on the important work already being done to honor the city’s Second World War heritage by expanding engagement with the concept and scope of ‘freedom’ in the past, present and future.

Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 6

Launched by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) students and staff from the Cultural Geography chair group and MSc Tourism, Society & Environment programme!

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 6

The tour is a co-created guided walking tour initiative inspired by the success of projects like Migrantour Utrecht and the self-guided Wageningen Decolonial Tour.

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 6

Freedom Tours Wageningen has launched! The tour routes are developed and led by Wageningen residents with diverse backgrounds, and promote awareness of the complexities of freedom and how these are negotiated. More information in the thread below and here: sites.google.com/view/freedom...

Freedom Tours Wageningen - English

What's freedom?

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Jan 31

Congratulations to GEO's chair Edward Huijbens for being appointed member of the National Parks Advisory Committee in the Netherlands. Edward will contribute to shaping a vision for preserving national parks and fostering balance between nature & human activities: www.eerstekamer.nl/overig/20230...

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Jan 30

On Saturday 8 February 10:00 (CET) a SCoT webinar will take a look at recent protests against tourism in the Canary Islands. GEO member Eva Erdmenger will share some insights from her research during the webinar. Details can be found on the following website: scotwebinars.org/events/volum...

Volume 65 - SCoT Webinars

Overtourism: Are people protesting against or for tourism? The phenomenon of overtourism has come into focus globally. Diffuse dissatisfaction among the population with certain forms of development of...

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