EMMAUEL AKWASI ADU-AMPONG
RESEARCH FELLOW, HE/HIM
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong is an Assistant Professor at the Cultural Geography group at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands since April, 2019. Prior to this, he was a Senior Lecturer in Tourism and International Development at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK from 2017 to 2019. His ongoing research project on the geographies of slavery heritage tourism seeks to synthesize the relational notions of place and embodied performativity in cultural geography with notions of transformative cross-cultural encounters in critical tourism studies and ideas about the social construction of heritage in critical heritage studies. The goal is to show how tourism as socio-cultural practices and performances can generate cultural and political affect across space that increases historical awareness while challenging and (re)creating new narratives about slavery’s past and present. Currently, he is focused on slavery heritage tourism practices and performances within the Ghana-Suriname-Netherlands triangle. The long term goal of his research is to render slavery heritage tourism sites as places of remembrance, dialogue and change that speaks to broader societal issues about the past, identity and belonging. His research interest beyond geographies of slavery heritage tourism include sustainable tourism development policy and planning, cultural heritage management and innovations in qualitative research methodology & methods.
Expertise: Plantations, Enslavement & Heritage Tourism, Sustainability & Equity, Qualitative research methodologies, Tourism policy and planning
Contact: emmanuel.adu-ampong@wur.nl
@AduAmpong_EA
aduampongemmanuel.wordpress.com
Selected Publications
Adu-Ampong, E. A. (2012) Managing Tourism at Heritage Sites: Insights from the Cape Coast Castle, Ghana. Saarbrucken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.