Destinasyon Tabağı: Yersizyurtsuzlaşma, Homojenleşme ve McDisneyleşme Bağlamında Mekân Kimliği ve Gastronomik Peyzaj Arasındaki İlişki

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 84 - 96, 25.03.2025

Çağrı Erdoğan

https://doi.org/10.32958/gastoria.1641126

Abstract

Gastronomik peyzaj, mutfak kültürünün ötesine uzanarak yerel toplulukla iç içe geçmiş doğal kaynakları ve kültürel mirası temsil etmekte olup temel gündelik pratiklerin ve sembolik etkileşimlerin ayrılmaz bir parçasıdır. Ayrıca, kültürel peyzajların ve destinasyonların önemli bir bileşeni olarak mekân kimliğini güçlendirirken turizm deneyimini de zenginleştirmektedir. Ancak, yersizyurtsuzlaşmanın şiddetlenip yayılması ve homojenleşmeyi tetiklemesiyle birlikte, turizm de dâhil olmak üzere toplumsal yapının herhangi bir unsurunun bu süreçten etkilenmemesi giderek mümkün olmayan bir hâl almaktadır. Bu olumsuz koşullar altında gastronomik peyzaj unsurlarının salt kâr odaklılığa bürünmesi, kültürel duyarlılıktan uzak bir şekilde geliştirilip kullanıma sunulması gibi McDisneyleşme’nin önünü açan faaliyetler artabilecektir. Böylece turizm deneyiminin yalınlaşması, mekân kimliği kaynaklarının zayıflaması ve anlam kaybının derinleşmesi söz konusu olacaktır. Nihayetinde destinasyon, besleyiciliğine dair şüphe duyulan, içeriği sorgulanmaya müsait, tek tip yiyecekten müteşekkil bir tabağı andıracaktır. Bu doğrultuda çalışmanın özgün katkısını; keşifsel bir yaklaşım ve bütünleştirici literatür taraması aracılığıyla mekân kimliği ile gastronomik peyzaj ilişkiselliğinin özellikle yersizyurtsuzlaşma, homojenleşme ve McDisneyleşme gibi temel sosyolojik kavramlar bağlamında turizmi merkeze alarak ortaya koyması ve irdelemesi ifade etmektedir. Sonuç olarak çalışma, gastronomik peyzajın mekân kimliğini güçlendirmedeki önemli rolünü vurgulamakta, destinasyon kültürüyle olan çok yönlü bağlantısına ışık tutmakta ve gastronomik çeşitliliği ve otantikliği teşvik etmektedir.

Keywords

turizm sosyolojisi, mekân kimliği, gastronomik peyzaj, turizm deneyimi, sürdürülebilirlik

Ethical Statement

Araştırma yapısı ve süreci bakımından, çalışma bir etik kurul raporu gerektirmemektedir.

Destination Plate: The Relationship Between Place Identity and Gastronomic Landscape in the Context of Deterritorialisation, Homogenisation, and McDisneyisation

Abstract

The gastronomic landscape, extending beyond culinary culture and represents the natural resources and cultural heritage interwoven with the local community, is an integral aspect of fundamental everyday practices and symbolic interactions. Furthermore, it is also a key component of cultural landscapes and destinations, strengthening place identity and enriching the tourism experience. However, as deterritorialisation intensifies and spreads, driving homogenisation, it becomes harder for any element within the social structure, including tourism to remain unaffected. Under these threats, gastronomic landscape elements may become profit-driven, developed and utilised without cultural sensitivity, thereby paving the way for McDisneyisation. This process simplifies the tourism experience, undermines place identity, and further deepens its loss of meaning. Ultimately, the destination resembles a plate filled with uniform items of uncertain substance, raising concerns about its nutritional value. Accordingly, the study’s distinctive contribution lies in its novel integration of place identity and the gastronomic landscape through an explanatory approach and an integrative literature review, placing tourism at the core within key sociological concepts, primarily deterritorialisation, homogenisation, and McDisneyisation. As a result, the study highlights the gastronomic landscape's crucial role in enhancing place identity, shedding light on its multidimensional connection to a destination's culture, and promoting gastronomic diversity and authenticity.

Keywords

tourism sociology, place identity, gastronomic landscape, tourism experience, sustainability

Ethical Statement

In terms of the structure and process of the research, the study does not require an ethics committee report.

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