Cultural Studies Association’s Environment, Space & Place Working Group Co-Chair Richard Simpson discusses the local, global, and transnational impact of cruise ships and the cruise ship industry with Constance Dijkstra, International Maritime Organization (IMO) policy manager for the advocacy group T & E, Karla Hart, co-founder of the Global Cruise Activist Network, and Luc Renaud, Associate Professor at the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at the University of Quebec in Montreal. This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Francesca Savoldi.
Articles by Constance Dijkstra
Constance Dijkstra joined Transport & Environment's shipping team as a campaigner in June 2022 to work on LNG and biofuels and is now IMO policy manager. Before T&E, she worked for three years and half at POLITICO Europe where she was in charge of the programming and organization of all the summits. Prior to that, she was a security analyst for a London-based consultancy Crisis24 where she was assessing security risks affecting the maritime sector. She started her career as a research associate in peace processes at the Graduate Institute Geneva in Switzerland and studied in the UK where she obtained a BA in international relations and MSc in conflict studies.