Hazel Tucker

Biography

Hazel has been in the Tourism Department at the University of Otago since January 2000. 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.  

Research Interest

  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.