Maartje Roelofsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2927198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maartje Roelofsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maartje |
| FAMILY NAME | Roelofsen |
| SIGNATURE | ROELOFSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0952-0849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Accommodating guests during pandemic times
Purpose This paper explores how Airbnb hosts' experiences with and responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) health crisis may differ according to their motivations to host and to the type and spatial layout of their Airbnb accommodation. Based on these insights, the paper reflects on the lessons that are learned for the future of short-term rentals. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative multi-method small-scale case study,…
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 projects, forms of activism, diverse theories, and as ways of knowing that have critically informed tourism knowledge production. It then offers reflections on the development of feminist tourism geographies over the past two to three decades, before outlin…
Embodied Encounters with Virtual Reality in Geography Education
Virtual reality (VR) constitutes a deeply embodied mode of communication that has gained significant interest and application in geography education and research. In this article, we engage with recent theoretical work to conceptualize VR as a communicative encounter and centralize the role of embodiment therein. We argue that different bodies experience VR in different ways, which raises questions about the potential inequalities of access and e…
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms
Delivery platforms use algorithmic control mechanisms to control couriers’ work. Despite studies looking at how algorithmic control manifests on different delivery platforms, there is a dearth of research exploring how delivery platforms communicate their approaches to algorithmic control, what kinds of strategies delivery workers adopt to mitigate algorithmic control, and to what extent information regarding such ‘algoactivistic approaches’ is s…
Tourism content on Twitter (X) during a crisis
This study explores the themes and actors that dominated tourism-related tweets over the first two years of the COVID-19 emergency (2020−2021) and examines Twitter (X)’s potential as a communication tool within tourism crisis management. A mixed-methods research design was adopted to analyse almost half a million Twitter (X) posts that included the keyword ‘tourism’ and pandemic-related terms. The outcomes suggest that a select number of actors a…
Coercive geographies
This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a …
Denialist and neoliberal approaches to tourism and the Covid-19 pandemic
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, as well as speculation about tourism futures, have been the subject of intense academic debate. Yet, despite a prolific literature on the intimate relationship between tourism and (geo)politics, accounts of how conservative and (extreme) right-wing politics shaped tourism during the pandemic remain underdiscussed in tourism studies. Hence, the purpose of this commentary is to draw attention to this…
Virtual reality as a spatial prompt in geography learning and teaching
We examine the claim that virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential for pedagogical applications in geography. We do so with reference to results from a two-year research-teaching project embedded in a postgraduate course on "Heritage and Its Management." We reflect on the implementation of a VR field trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum enabled by the high-immersive Inside Auschwitz guided documentary, drawing on surveys and interv…
Becoming Airbnbeings
Provocatively drawing inspiration from an episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror and China’s Social Credit System this article critically examines the politics and practices of datafication, quantification and qualification associated to the Airbnb platform. It first explores some of the ideas and ontological claims that endorse Airbnb’s digital infrastructure. Secondly, it looks at how the company’s use of data management and metrics has bec…
Exploring the socio-spatial inequalities of Airbnb in Sofia, Bulgaria
The objective of this article is to provide an analysis of the spatialities of Airbnb in Sofia, Bulgaria. Relying on an analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data, this article firstly explores the diffusion and concentration of Airbnb listings in the city’s districts. It questions whether the platform’s self-proclaimed contribution to a more diversified offering of tourism accommodation indeed applies to the context of Sofia. It then ide…
The Superhost. Biopolitics, home and community in the Airbnb dream-world of global hospitality
Doing femininity and respectability
This research explores the complexities that underlie the formation of women’s social networks at traditional social student organisations in the Netherlands, advancing theory on the intersectionality of gender and class in leisure space. Building on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social capital it investigates if these social networks are segregated, and to what extent their divisions depend on previously acquired economic, cultural and symbolic ca…
The Superhost. Biopolitics, home and community in the Airbnb dream-world of global hospitality
Becoming Airbnbeings
Provocatively drawing inspiration from an episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror and China’s Social Credit System this article critically examines the politics and practices of datafication, quantification and qualification associated to the Airbnb platform. It first explores some of the ideas and ontological claims that endorse Airbnb’s digital infrastructure. Secondly, it looks at how the company’s use of data management and metrics has bec…
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 projects, forms of activism, diverse theories, and as ways of knowing that have critically informed tourism knowledge production. It then offers reflections on the development of feminist tourism geographies over the past two to three decades, before outlin…
Coercive geographies
This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a …
Virtual reality as a spatial prompt in geography learning and teaching
We examine the claim that virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential for pedagogical applications in geography. We do so with reference to results from a two-year research-teaching project embedded in a postgraduate course on "Heritage and Its Management." We reflect on the implementation of a VR field trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum enabled by the high-immersive Inside Auschwitz guided documentary, drawing on surveys and interv…
Denialist and neoliberal approaches to tourism and the Covid-19 pandemic
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, as well as speculation about tourism futures, have been the subject of intense academic debate. Yet, despite a prolific literature on the intimate relationship between tourism and (geo)politics, accounts of how conservative and (extreme) right-wing politics shaped tourism during the pandemic remain underdiscussed in tourism studies. Hence, the purpose of this commentary is to draw attention to this…
Doing femininity and respectability
This research explores the complexities that underlie the formation of women’s social networks at traditional social student organisations in the Netherlands, advancing theory on the intersectionality of gender and class in leisure space. Building on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social capital it investigates if these social networks are segregated, and to what extent their divisions depend on previously acquired economic, cultural and symbolic ca…
Exploring the socio-spatial inequalities of Airbnb in Sofia, Bulgaria
The objective of this article is to provide an analysis of the spatialities of Airbnb in Sofia, Bulgaria. Relying on an analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data, this article firstly explores the diffusion and concentration of Airbnb listings in the city’s districts. It questions whether the platform’s self-proclaimed contribution to a more diversified offering of tourism accommodation indeed applies to the context of Sofia. It then ide…
The Superhost. Biopolitics, home and community in the Airbnb dream-world of global hospitality
Becoming Airbnbeings
Provocatively drawing inspiration from an episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror and China’s Social Credit System this article critically examines the politics and practices of datafication, quantification and qualification associated to the Airbnb platform. It first explores some of the ideas and ontological claims that endorse Airbnb’s digital infrastructure. Secondly, it looks at how the company’s use of data management and metrics has bec…
Virtual reality as a spatial prompt in geography learning and teaching
We examine the claim that virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential for pedagogical applications in geography. We do so with reference to results from a two-year research-teaching project embedded in a postgraduate course on "Heritage and Its Management." We reflect on the implementation of a VR field trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum enabled by the high-immersive Inside Auschwitz guided documentary, drawing on surveys and interv…
Coercive geographies
This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a …
Denialist and neoliberal approaches to tourism and the Covid-19 pandemic
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, as well as speculation about tourism futures, have been the subject of intense academic debate. Yet, despite a prolific literature on the intimate relationship between tourism and (geo)politics, accounts of how conservative and (extreme) right-wing politics shaped tourism during the pandemic remain underdiscussed in tourism studies. Hence, the purpose of this commentary is to draw attention to this…
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms
Delivery platforms use algorithmic control mechanisms to control couriers’ work. Despite studies looking at how algorithmic control manifests on different delivery platforms, there is a dearth of research exploring how delivery platforms communicate their approaches to algorithmic control, what kinds of strategies delivery workers adopt to mitigate algorithmic control, and to what extent information regarding such ‘algoactivistic approaches’ is s…
Tourism content on Twitter (X) during a crisis
This study explores the themes and actors that dominated tourism-related tweets over the first two years of the COVID-19 emergency (2020−2021) and examines Twitter (X)’s potential as a communication tool within tourism crisis management. A mixed-methods research design was adopted to analyse almost half a million Twitter (X) posts that included the keyword ‘tourism’ and pandemic-related terms. The outcomes suggest that a select number of actors a…
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 projects, forms of activism, diverse theories, and as ways of knowing that have critically informed tourism knowledge production. It then offers reflections on the development of feminist tourism geographies over the past two to three decades, before outlin…
Embodied Encounters with Virtual Reality in Geography Education
Virtual reality (VR) constitutes a deeply embodied mode of communication that has gained significant interest and application in geography education and research. In this article, we engage with recent theoretical work to conceptualize VR as a communicative encounter and centralize the role of embodiment therein. We argue that different bodies experience VR in different ways, which raises questions about the potential inequalities of access and e…
Accommodating guests during pandemic times
Purpose This paper explores how Airbnb hosts' experiences with and responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) health crisis may differ according to their motivations to host and to the type and spatial layout of their Airbnb accommodation. Based on these insights, the paper reflects on the lessons that are learned for the future of short-term rentals. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative multi-method small-scale case study,…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Tourism (7 works) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)