Dr Chris Hurst

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

I am an Assistant Professor in Tourism and Hospitality, and Programme Leader for the BA(Hons) in Tourism and Events Management at Northumbria University, United Kingdom. I am also a critical tourism scholar. 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.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

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 relations.

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Indigenous interpretation in parks and protected areas on Turtle Island: a scoping review, Lemelin, R., Hurst, C., Grimwood, B. 18 Sep 2024, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism
Together-in-Time, Hurst, C. 16 Nov 2024, In: Leisure Sciences
Tourism, animals & the vacant niche: a scoping review and pedagogical agenda, Fennell, D., Kline, C., Mkono, M., Grimwood, B., Sheppard, V., Dashper, K., Rickly, J., Burns, G., Bertella, G., von Essen, E., García-Rosell, J., Guo, Y., Hoarau-Heemstra, H., López, Á., Venegas, G., Holladay, P., Cavaliere, C., Copeland, K., Danley, B., Rizzolo, J., Hurst, C., Usui, R., Äijälä, M., Crossley, É., Hill, K., Szydlowski, M., Bisgrove, D., Blythe, S., Fennell, S., Oxley Heaney, S., Schuhmacher, C., Tully, P., Coose, S., Hooper, J., Madrid, R. 16 Nov 2024, In: Current Issues in Tourism
Inviting Engagement with Atmospheres, Hurst, C., Stinson, M. 27 Oct 2023, Researching with Proximity, Cham Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
Posthumanism and the sentient elephant in the room, Hurst, C., Grimwood, B. 1 Jul 2023, In: Annals of Tourism Research
Enchantment: Feeding care within the cracks of ecotourism, Caton, K., Hurst, C., Grimwood, B. 1 Jan 2022, Routledge Handbook of Ecotourism, London, Taylor & Francis
Tracing the materiality of reconciliation in tourism, Stinson, M., Hurst, C., Grimwood, B. 1 May 2022, In: Annals of Tourism Research
Conceptualizing cultural sensitivity in tourism: a systematic literature review, Hurst, C., Grimwood, B., Lemelin, R., Stinson, M. 2 Oct 2021, In: Tourism Recreation Research
Land, Settler identity, and tourism memories, Fortin, K., Hurst, C., Grimwood, B. 1 Nov 2021, In: Annals of Tourism Research
Becoming care-full: contextualizing moral development among captive elephant volunteer tourists to Thailand, Taylor, M., Hurst, C., Stinson, M., Grimwood, B. 2 Apr 2020, In: Journal of Ecotourism