Maartje Roelofsen
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Maartje Roelofsen
@sharingspaces.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Research interests: hospitality / tourism / service work | Virtual Reality | Home | Airbnb | Biopolitics | Also manages BSKY account @wurpostdocs.bsky.social
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🎙️ Next in the Tourism Geographies Podcast we feature, Chih Chen Trista Lin & Maartje Roelofsen, Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University & Research.
💥 The episode is based on their recent paper, "FEMINIST TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES AS REFLECTED IN THEIR EMERGENT HISTORIES".
March 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Today marks the start of the Labour Geography workshop "Who cares?" which centers on care and social reproductive work. Really excited to attend the workshop and present research on social reproductive work in the short-term rental sector in the Netherlands. ⬇️
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Workshop Program: “Labour Geography – Who cares?” 13/14 Feb 2025, Graz (Austria) – AK Labour Geography
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February 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Are you working on a PhD in tourism? Consider joining our Critical Tourism Studies PhD Spring School from 3 - 11 April 2025 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. More information and registration on this website:

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January 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
For my postdoctoral stay at the Open University of Catalonia I recently received the 2024 UOC Santander Award. This means a lot to me because it provides an opportunity to reflect on the very particular circumstances of this stay and indispensable collaborations.
www.uoc.edu/en/news/2025...
The future of tourism shaped by algorithms
Interview with Maartje Roelofsen, award-winning researcher from the UOC and tourism expert
www.uoc.edu
January 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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On 3 December the Wageningen University and Research "Gender+ Equality Plan 2024-2028" was officially launched. We congratulate GEO’s Chizu Sato @csato.bsky.social, Marrit van den Berg and Joshua Wambugu on winning the The Gender+ Equality Award! More info about here: www.wur.nl/en/article/w...
December 18, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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#Jobalert We are hiring! Come and join us in the Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University. We are seeking 3 PhD candidates to research the generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism on the FRICTIONS project team, funded by the ERC Starting grant: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/t...
Three PhD positions for the ERC project, 'The generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism'
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November 14, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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📣 The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies has been published and includes two new additions written by GEO-members @sharingspaces.bsky.social (‘Digital Tourism Geographies’) and Edward Huijbens (titled ‘Geographies of Tourism and the Anthropocene’). Link to the book ⬇️
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, 2nd Edition, offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of the recent developments; conceptual, theoretical and empirical debates; and critical issues in this ...
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October 28, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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📣 Publication alert! Chih-Chen Trista Lin & @sharingspaces.bsky.social (Maartje Roelofsen) provide an overview of feminist analyses of tourism that have been published in journal Tourism Geographies since 1999.
🔎 Link to the publication (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories
This state-of-the art review provides an overview of feminist analyses of tourism that have been published in Tourism Geographies since 1999. The review first introduces feminisms as political proj...
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September 18, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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GEO members were quite present at this year's International Geographical Congress in Dublin, Ireland! Cheryl van Adrichem, Chih-Chen Trista Lin, Maartje Roelofsen & Martijn Duineveld presented their latest research on Stranded Assets Risk, Housekeeping Work, Virtual Reality, and Climate Obstruction!
September 6, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Really pleased to see "Tourism and Biopolitics in Pandemic Times" on the shelves. This book was written together with Christine Ampumuza, Caterina Ciarleglio, Myra Coulter, Dominic Lapointe, Chih-Chen Trista Lin, Claudio Minca & Amos Ochieng. Published by Palgrave. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
February 7, 2024 at 12:44 PM