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Dr Chris Hurst

Assistant Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

I am a critical tourism scholar and Assistant Professor in Tourism and Hospitality at 51, United Kingdom. My research attends to material-affective atmospheres, spatiotemporality, and more-than-human agencies in nature-based tourism and protected areas. My research is contextualized by the Anthropocene - i.e., the contemporary geologic era of planetary-wide environmental crises, anthropogenic inscription, and precarity. I engage posthumanism and non-representational praxis as philosophical, theoretical, and methodological spaces for thinking-with and researching-with nonhumans. I am particularly interested in more-than-human conservation possibilities in tourism and as an embodied ethics of living/thriving/being-with many on a shared planet.

Chris Hurst

My research interests include:

  • Critical tourism topics (broadly)

  • Human-nature encounters and relationships (broadly)

  • Community-led research

  • Naturescapes, protected areas, and parks

  • Unsettling and decolonizing tourism practices and research

  • Tourism, climate change, and the Anthropocene

  • Posthuman philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches

  • Multi-modal, qualitative methodological practices, sensory attunement, and novel (re)presentational practices

  • Embodied relational research 

  • Possibilties of more-than-human conservation futures attuned to nonhuman agencies, affectivity and atmospheres, and troubling chrono- and spatio-normativity in research -with پDzԲ.

  • PhD June 03 2024
  • Education Certificate December 17 2021
  • Fellow Higher Education Academy FHEA 2024


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