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Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association.
List of contents
Series Editor Preface viii
Acknowledgements ix
Permissions x
List of Tables xi
List of Figures xii
1 Introduction 1
2 The Geographies of Brands and Branding 23
3 Origination 59
4 'Local' Origination ... Newcastle Brown Ale 88
5 'National' Origination ... Burberry 112
6 'Global' Origination ... Apple 139
7 Territorial Development 171
8 Conclusions 194
References 207
Index 224
About the author
Andy Pike is Professor of Local and Regional Development and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. He is co-author of
Local and Regional Development (2006) (with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and John Tomaney), editor of
Brands and Branding Geographies (2011), and co-editor of
Handbook of Local and Regional Development (2011) (with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and John Tomaney).
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Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association.
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'Andy Pike has given us a deeply researched and much needed analysis of the ways in which brands and branding are intertwined with space and place. Through a series of revelatory case studies of products and their places of origin, we learn how spatial context matters in the production of branded meaning and value. Origination will be an essential resource for scholars of branding, geography, cultural studies, and the contemporary global economy.'
-- Miriam Greenberg, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
'The symbolic landscape of late capitalism is cluttered with brands, but this is hardly a featureless, flat earth marked only by free-floating, rootless signs. In Origination, Andy Pike provides the first systematic exploration of the geographies of brands and branding -- many of which, of course, are hidden in plain sight -- combining creative theorization with compelling case studies. An original!'
-- Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada
