COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL TOURISM STUDIES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUI 6206 CRITICAL TOURISM STUDIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

Tourism Management

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EMIR ÖZEREN

Offered to

Tourism Management

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to analyze the social theory, Frankfurt School, consumer culture, modernity and post-modernity within the framework of the mainstream tourism practices and examine the phenomenon of tourism from the perspective of critical tourism and management studies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to explain the relationship between tourism and consumption culture.
2   To be able to question the relationship between tourism and development and inequality
3   To be able to critically discuss alternative tourism practices
4   To be able to explain the relationship between tourism and post-politics
5   To be able to establish the relationship between tourism and alternative organization

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: why are critical studies necessary for the tourism research
2 Critical approaches in social theory and tourism research
3 Modernity, rigid-modernity, fluid modernity
4 Modernity and tourism practices
5 Critical theory, Frankfurt School ve consumption culture
6 Managerial point of views and critical perspetives in tourism studies
7 Practice theory and research practices in tourism studies
8 Neoliberalism, political economy, development, sustainability, and tourism
9 Neoliberal governmentality and tourism
10 Precarity and precarious working in tourism
11 Post-politics and cooperation between academia and the tourism industry
12 Alternative organizing in tourism
13 Student presentations, class discussions and term overview
14 Student presentations, class discussions and term overview

Recomended or Required Reading

Bauman, Z. (2017). Akışkan modernite. Istanbul: Can yayınları.

Urry, J. (2009). Turist bakışı (çeviren. E. Tataroğlu ve I. Yıldız). Ankara: BilgeSu.

Uriely, N. (2005). The tourist experience. Annals of Tourism Research, 32(1): 199-216.

Assoun, P. L. (2012). Frankfurt okulu. Dost Kitabevi.

Kaygalak-Celebi, S., Ozeren, E., & Aydin, E. (2022). The missing link of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in tourism: A qualitative research on Amsterdam Pride. Tourism Management Perspectives, 41, 100937.

Kaygalak-Celebi, S., Kaya, Ş., Ozeren, E. & Günlü-Kucukaltan, E. (2019). Pride Festivals as a Space of Self-Expression: Tourism, Body and Place. Journal of Organizational Change Management
https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-01-2019-0026

Aslan, A. & Ozeren, E. (2018). `Earthquake Will Pass, And The Life Will Go On : A Critical Reading of Public Spots of DASK, Business & Management Studies: An International Journal, 6(4): 1271-1284. http://dx.doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v6i4.401

Aslan, A. & Özeren, E. (2018). Foucault nun Neoliberal Yönetimselliğini Bir Plaza Romanı Üzerinden Okumak: Ofistekiler , YOAD (Yönetim Organizasyon Araştırmaları Dergisi , 3(1): 5-26.
Hall, C. M. (2010). Academic capitalism, academic responsibility and
tourism academics: or, the silence of the lambs Tourism Recreation
Research, 35(3): 298-301.

Duffy, R. (2008). Neoliberalising nature: global networks and
ecotourism development in Madagscar. Journal of Sustainable
Tourism, 16(3): 327-344.

Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T., & Willmott, H. (Eds.). (2009). The Oxford
handbook of critical management studies. Oxford Handbooks.


Aslan, A. & Ozeren, E. (2016). Turist-Çalışan (Görevli) Etkileşimleri: Pratik Teorisi Bağlamında Bir Inceleme. Içinde E. Duran ve C. Aslan (der.) Turizmin Sosyal Psikolojik Dinamikleri (ss.119-133). Çanakkale: Paradigma Akademi.

Fournier, V and Grey, C (2000). At the Critical Moment: Conditions and Prospects for Critical Management Studies. Human Relations. January 2000 53: 7-32.

Gibson, C. (2019): Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times, Tourism Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1647453

Aslan, S. ve Aslan, A. (2018). Uzun ince bir yoldayım, sürüyorum gündüz gece: Tur şoförlerinin çalışma pratikleri. Çalışma ve Toplum, 58(3): 1509-1530.

Richard N.S. Robinson, Antje Martins, David Solnet & Tom Baum (2019). Sustaining precarity: critically examining tourism and employment, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27:7, 1008-1025, DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2018.1538230

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, directed readings, class discussions, case studies

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students are expected to be able to identify the key issues by questioning case studies presented to them, to deconstruct the texts in the reading list, to critically filter them and develop some analytical findings and propositions.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. It is obligatory to attend at least 70% of the classes.
2. Violations of plagiarism of any kind will result in disciplinary steps being taken.
3. Active participation is expected in group works and class discussions.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

emir.ozeren@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday at 13:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Practice (Reflection) 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 10 140
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 0 0 0
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 217

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1554
LO.255454
LO.35554
LO.455454
LO.555454