Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity

Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity

by Melissa Aronczyk
Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity

Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity

by Melissa Aronczyk

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Overview

National governments around the world are turning to branding consultants, public relations advisers and strategic communications experts to help them "brand" their jurisdiction. Using the tools, techniques and expertise of commercial branding is believed to help nations articulate more coherent and cohesive identities, attract foreign capital, and maintain citizen loyalty. In short, the goal of nation branding is to make the nation matter in a world where borders and boundaries appear increasingly obsolete.

But what actually happens to the nation when it is reconceived as a brand? How does nation branding change the terms of politics and culture in a globalized world? Through case studies in twelve countries and in-depth interviews with nation branding experts and their national clients, Melissa Aronczyk argues that the social, political and cultural discourses constitutive of the nation have been harnessed in new and problematic ways, with far-reaching consequences for both our concept of the nation and our ideals of national citizenship. Branding the Nation challenges the received wisdom about the power of brands to change the world, and offers a critical perspective on these new ways of conceiving value and identity in the globalized twenty-first century.

This book is about how nation branding became a worldwide phenomenon and a professional transnational practice. It is also about how nation branding has become a solution to perceived contemporary problems affecting the space of the nation state: problems of economic development, democratic communication, and especially national visibility and legitimacy amidst the multiple global flows of late modernity. In this book, Melissa Aronczyk charts the political, cultural and economic rationales by which the nation has been made to matter in a twenty-first-century context of global integration.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199752171
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 09/17/2013
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Melissa Aronczyk is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: There Must Certainly Be Some Such Place
1. Nation and Brand: Keywords for the Twenty-first Century
2. The New and Improved Nation: How Culture Became Competitive
3. Living the Brand: The Identity Strategies of Nation Branding Consultants
4. Creative Tension, Normal Nation: Branding National Identity in Poland
5. From Bland to Brand: Transforming Canadian Culture
6. Trading Spaces: The World Tour
Conclusion: Variable Utopias
List of References
Notes
Index
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