Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

by Zala Volcic (Editor), Mark Andrejevic (Editor)

Overview

This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137500991
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	02/03/2016
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	202
File size:	370 KB

About the Author

Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, Australia Nicholas Carah, University of Queensland, Australia Eric Louw, University of Queensland, Australia Juan Sanin, Monash University, Australia Fan Yang, University of Maryland, USA Giang Nguyen-Thu, Vietnam National University, Vietnam Magdalena Kania-Lundholm, Uppsala University, Sweden Michela Ardizzoni, University of Colorado, USA Nadia Kaneva, University of Denver, USA

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Overview: origins, research, and theoretical considerations; Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic
2. Setting the Scene for Commercial Nationalism: the Nation, the Market and the Media; Graeme Turner
3. The Apologetic Brand: building Australia's brand on a post-colonial apology; Nicholas Carah and Eric Louw
4. Colombia was Passion: Commercial nationalism and the reinvention of Colombianness; Juan Sanin
5. The Chinese Dream: A Global-national Ideological Formation; Fan Yang
6. Personal wealth, national pride: Vietnamese television and commercial nationalism; Nguyen Thu Giang
7. Between building and branding the nation: citizens debating the new patriotism in Poland; Magdalena Kania-Lundholm
8. Borderless Nationalism: RAI's transnational Brand; Michela Ardizzoni
9. South African nation branding and the World Cup: Promoting nationalism, nation branding, and the miracle nation discourse; Eric Louw
10. Exploiting Commercial Nationalism: Fox TV and the Deadlock of Affective Intelligence; Mark Andrejevic
11. Nation Branding and Commercial Nationalism: Notes For a Materialist Critique; Nadia Kaneva