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Interview | Inspiring people @WUR: Meghann Ormond |
“I’m a cultural geographer with American and Portuguese citizenship, and I’ve studied and worked all my…
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Special Issue | Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions
Special Issue Journal Environmental Policy and Planning Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions Editors: Kristof…
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Event | A Just Future for the Global Countryside? | with Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University | March 31, 2022 from 12.00 -13.30 CET
We are excited to welcome Professor Michael Woods from Aberystwyth University to Wageningen to present in…
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Science Shop Project | Use available hotel rooms to temporarily house the economically homeless | Karin Peters, et al.
In order to prevent the economically homeless from falling deeper into misery, a possible solution is…
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WASS/CSPS PhD course | Critical Perspectives on Social Theory | Mon 9 May 2022 until Thu 9 June 2022
Registration Click here: Registration page Introduction This PhD course gives participants an opportunity to intensively engage…
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Paper | Remaking the university | The autoimmunity of the modern university: How its managerialism is self-harming what it claims to protect | Henk van Houtum and Annelies van Uden
What we critically ascertain in this essay is how the modern university is increasingly drifting away…
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Paper | How to Design a Farming Robot Without a Monocultural Mindset?
The research for this paper was inspired by the realization that even though automation and robotics…
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Events | Peatland conversations
Dear colleagues, From next Thursday onwards we are organising four bi-weekly events on peatlands in cooperation…
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Blog | Transformative Learning Hub Goes Wild | Nature-based education with Ioanna Skaltsa, Ewout Openneer, Reineke van Tol, Koen Arts and Gina Maffey
On October 20th, the Transformative Learning Hub Went Wild. For the first time in over a…
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Event | Bringing Transformative Learning into our University Teaching and Beyond | with Neza Krek | November 17, 9.30 -12.30 CET | online
Are you ready for more connection, engagement and impact in your classroom or project? Then join…
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Conference| CONVIVIALITY – a virtual, open-access conference | October 4-9, 2021
Join us for CONVIVIALITY October 4-9, 2021 Have you heard there is an exciting all-virtual, all-free, all-asynchronous…
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Blog | 8th International Degrowth conference: Caring communities for radical change | August 24-28, 2021
The 8th International Degrowth conference: Caring communities for radical change (August 24-28, 2021, the Hague) has…
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Blog | The camp beyond the city | By Bram Jansen
Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya is emblematic for the debate about the ambiguous phenomenon of…
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Video | Introducing the Centre for Space, Place and Society
Curious to know who we are and what we do as a Centre? Watch our new…
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Publication | Present Checkpoint Futures: the relaunch op Checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem, the Occupied Palestinian Territories | By Alexandra Rijke
In this article Alexandra Rijke analyses the latest relaunch of Checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem as an…
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New book | Green and blue spaces and mental health: new evidence and perspectives for action (2021) | By Sjerp de Vries, et al.
The WHO European Centre for Environment and Health has been closely following the research on green…
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Announcement | PhD Defence Donya Madjdian | “Nourishing Hope. Adolescent Nutrition and Aspirations in Nepal”
August 10, 2021 On the 10th of September 2021 Donya Madjdian will defend her PhD thesis…
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Webinars | Section for Human-Primate Interactions | With Christine Ampumuza
Our Summer Series of Webinars starts Tuesday 13th July at 9am GMT We have a great…
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Blog | Tackling the health gap together | By: Laura Bouwman
It is a harsh reality. People on low incomes and with a low education are more…
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Publication | Antipode Virtual Issue on Israel/Palestine | with contributions from Alexandra Rijke and Claudio Minca
Antipode has long published radical geographical scholarship on Palestine/Israel. In this virtual issue, several articles, amongst them…
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Blog | Engaged scholarship: Why the UN Food System Summit has failed to engaged civil society
The majority of this blog post, written by Jessica Duncan and Priscilla Claeys, was originally posted…
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Blog | Why I support Alarm Day and the call for a 1.1 billion Euro structural investment in academic research and education | by prof. Han Wiskerke
Today, Tuesday April 6 2021, is ‘Alarm Day’; a day on which the teaching and research…
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Event | Water Politics Week | 17-21 May, 2021
Water Politics Week The Water Politics Week offers public lectures by renowned scholars on water politics,…
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New paper | ‘Beyond multicultural “tolerance”: guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning’. | By Meghann Ormond, et al.
An article co-authored by our associate professor in Cultural Geography Meghann Ormond was published in the…
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Paper | The productive role of innovation in a large tourism organisation (TUI) | By By Harald Buijtendijk, Joost van Heiningen and Martijn Duineveld
New paper | The productive role of innovation in a large tourism organisation (TUI) | By Harald Buijtendijk,…
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MSc Course | A Global Sense of Place | March – April 2021, period 5
In the face of urgent environmental and societal challenges, how do we move towards inclusive futures?…
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Course | Alternative Research Methods: Remote Edition | 8 – 12 February 2021
OtherWise, a WUR critical student organization, is launching a third edition of the Alternative Research Methods…
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Blog | Foodscapes in times of uncertainty #3 | The resilience of food banks during the COVID-19 pandemic
Members of the foodscapes cluster supervise a number of students who are looking at changing foodscapes in times…
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Blog | Anti-Oppression Reading Group | White Innocence
On Thursday the 19th of November CSPS colleagues and friends met to discuss Gloria Wekker’s White…
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