Brands and branding geographies/ edited by Andy Pike.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub., 2011Description: xv, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 1849801592; 9781849801591Subject(s): Branding (Marketing) | Brand name products | GlobalizationDDC classification: 658.827Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 658.827 PIK/B (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P23160 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I. Introduction: conceptualising and theorising brands and branding geographies -- 1. Introduction: Brands and branding geographies -- 2. Of places and brands -- 3. Brands: Boundary method objects and media space -- PART II. Brands and branding geographies: goods, services and knowledges -- 4. Brands in the making: a life history approach -- 5. The making of place: consumers and place-affiliated brands -- 6. Sports equipment: mixing performance with brands--the role of the consumers -- 7. Consumer capitalism and brand fetishism: the case of fashion brands in Bulgaria -- 8. Sensing brands, branding scents: on perfume creation in the fragrance industry -- 9. Constructing brands from the outside? Brand channels, cyclical clusters and global circuits -- 10. The making and recontextualizing of 'competitiveness' as a knowledge brand across different sites and scales -- PART III. Brands and branding geographies--spaces and places -- 11. Branding Hoxton: cultural landscapes of post-industrial London -- 12. Branding provincial cities: the politics of inclusion, strategy and commitment -- 13. Design activism meets place-branding: reconfiguring urban representation and everyday practice -- 14. Place branding and cooperation: Can a network of places be a brand? -- 15. Branding a Roman frontier in the twenty-first century -- 16. Packaging political projects in geographical imaginaries: the rise of nation branding -- 17. Beyond the nation brand: the role of image and identity in international relations -- PART IV. Conclusions -- 18. Creativity, brands, finance and beyond: notes towards a theoretical perspective on city branding -- 19. Conclusions: brands and branding geographies.
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