Hazel Tucker
Associate Professor
Office - Commerce 4.48
Tel 64 3 479 7671
Email hazel.tucker@otago.ac.nz
Background
Hazel has been in the Tourism Department at the University of Otago since January 2000, and holds the position of Associate Professor. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Durham, UK. Hazel's PhD was an ethnographic study of tourism and social change in Goreme, a cultural tourism destination and WHS in central Turkey. This research explored issues concerning host-guest interaction, tourism representations and identity, and community-based tourism and sustainability. Along with a number of published articles in refereed journals and books, Hazel is author of Living With Tourism: Negotiating Identity in a Turkish Village (Routledge 2003), and co-editor of Tourism and Postcolonialism (Routledge 2004) and Commercial Homes in Tourism (Routledge (2009).
Hazel serves as a Visiting Research Fellow with the Center for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University and is a Resource (Coordinator) Editor for Annals of Tourism Research.
Hazel coordinates TOUR 411 (Tourist Culture) and TOUR 417 (Tourism Analysis). She also teaches on courses on interpretation and product enrichment, and tourism and socio-cultural change. She is the PhD Coordinator for the Department.
Research Interests
Associate Professor Tucker’s main research objective lies in the advancement of critical knowledge and theory regarding tourism’s influence on socio-cultural relationships and change. Since completing her PhD (Social Anthropology, University of Durham) in 1999, Hazel has continued to be engaged in a longitudinal ethnographic study of Goreme, Turkey, exploring issues concerning the ongoing tourism development, gender, representation and identity, interpretation, ‘host’-‘guest’ interaction and small business development and entrepreneurship.
Other areas of Hazel’s research and publishing have had a New Zealand focus and also include the relationships between tourism and colonialism / postcolonialism, tourist narratives and performances, tours and tour guiding and the social dynamics of commercial hospitality.
Major Works
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Tucker, H. 2003. Living With Tourism: Negotiating Identities in a Turkish Village, London: Routledge. |
Hall, M. (C) and Tucker, H. (Eds.), 2004. Tourism and Postcolonialism, London: Routledge. |
Lynch, P. (C), McIntosh, A., and Tucker, H. (C) (Eds.), 2009. Commercial Homes in Tourism: An International Perspective. London: Routledge. |
Selected Recent Publications
Tucker, H. (2011). [Review of the book The Heritage-Scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism, by M. A. Di Giovine]. Journal of Anthropological Research, 67, 295-296.
Tucker, H. & Emge, A. (2010). Managing a World Heritage Site: The Case of Cappadocia. Anatolia, 21(1), 41-54
Tucker, H. (2010). Peasant-Entrepreneurs: A Longitudinal Ethnography. Annals of Tourism Research, 37(4), 927-946.
Tucker, H. and Akama, J. (2009) ‘Tourism as Postcolonialism’, in T. Jamal and M. Robinson (eds.) Handbook of Tourism Studies. Sage Publishing.
Tucker, H. (2009) ‘Discomfort and shame in tourism encounters: recognizing emotion and its postcolonial potentialities’, in Tourism Geographies, Special issue: Worldmakings of tourism, 11(4) November 2009.
Tucker, H. (2009), 'Negotiating Gender Relations and Identity between Locals and Tourists in Turkey: Romantic Developments', pp. 305-327 in S. B. Gmelch (ed.) Tourists and Tourism: A Reader, 2nd ed, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
Tucker, H. (2009), 'The Cave Homes of Goreme - Performing Tourism Hospitality in Gendered Space', pp. 127-137 in P. Lynch, A. McIntoch & H. Tucker (eds.) Commercial Homes in Tourism: An International Perspective, Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Shelton, E.J. and Tucker, H. (2008) ‘Managed to be Wild: Species Recovery, island restoration and nature-based tourism in New Zealand, in Tourism Review International, Special Issue: Zoos, Aquaria and Tourism, Vol. 11 pp. 205-212.
Tucker, H. (2007) ‘Undoing Shame: Tourism and Women’s Work in Turkey’, in Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Vol. 5. No. 2, pp. 87-105.
Tucker, H. (2007) ‘Performing a Young Person’s Package Tour of New Zealand: Negotiating Appropriate Performances of Place’, in Tourism Geographies, Vol. 9. No. 2, pp. 139-159.
Mottiar, Z. and Tucker, H. (2007) ‘Webs of Power: Multiple ownership in tourism destinations’, in Current Issues in Tourism, Vol. 10. No. 4, pp. 279-295.
PhD and Masters Supervision - Current
PhD Yuthasak Chatkaewanapanon, Moving Towards Tourism in Samui Island, Thailand.
PhD Neil Walsh, The relationship between Backpacking, Guidebooks and Practice.
PhD Donna Keen, Rural Tourism and the High Country of New Zealand.
PhD Eric Shelton, Telling Experiences in Fiordland: Transformations of Place and Self.
PhD Alyse Foster, Dark Tourism: Guiding Performances and Emotion.
PhD Adam Doering, Negotiating 'Home' in Rural Japan.
PhD Fateme Etemaddar, Mobility, Gender and Culture.
PhD Brenda Boonabaana, Women and Community Tourism Initiatives in Rural Uganda.
PhD Kelly Whitney-Squire, The Role of Language in Sustainable Community-based Aboriginal Tourism Development.
PhD Fiona Bakas, Handicraft Tourism, Gender and Sustainability.