Chris Hurst

PhD, Recreation and Leisure Studies

Biography

Chris Hurst

Chris is a Settler Canadian and critical tourism/leisure scholar whose research interests include more-than-human nature-based tourism, conservation, and non-representational praxis in the Anthropocene. She is a recent PhD graduate in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Her PhD research engaged posthumanism in nature-based tourism encounters within protected areas as a theoretical and methodological space to think-with and research-with nonhumans. Her research is oriented towards more-than-human conservation possibilities—in nature-based tourism/leisure and as an embodied ethics for living and being-with nonhumans.

Research interests

Posthumanism, the Anthropocene, nature-based tourism/recreation, more-than-human natures, embodied ethics, protected area conservation

Chris’s research attends to more-than-human natures in the Anthropocene. In particular, her research engages posthumanism, conservation, and embodied ethics in nature-based tourism/recreation.     

Research highlights

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Publication highlight: Together-in-Time