Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Frantz Fanon’s explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless expose of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon’s incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized peoples, it is both a crucial text in post-colonial theory, and a lesson in the power of analytical skills to reveal the realities that hide beneath the surface of things.  
Fanon was himself part of a colonized nation – Martinique – and grew up with the values and beliefs of French culture imposed upon him, while remaining relegated to an inferior status in society. Qualifying as a psychiatrist in France before working in Algeria (a French colony subject to brutal repression), his own experiences granted him a sharp insight into the psychological problems associated with colonial rule.  
Like any good analytical thinker, Fanon’s particular skill was in breaking things down and joining dots. His analysis of colonial rule exposed its implicit assumptions – and how they were replicated in colonised populations – allowing Fanon to unpick the hidden reasons behind his own conflicted psychological make up, and those of his patients. Unflinchingly clear-sighted in doing so, Black Skin White Masks remains a shocking read today.

An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks

Cornell hotel and restaurant administration quarterly

The coronavirus pandemic A critical discussion of a tourism research agenda

A review of research on tourism risk, crisis and disaster management: Launching the annals of tourism research curated collection on tourism risk, crisis and disaster management

Destination image repair during crisis: Attracting tourism during the Arab Spring uprisings

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Media strategies for improving an unfavorable city image

Part One: 1. Summary of existing knowledge in place image, the techniques and strategies used for place promotion, and the field of image crisis. 2. Introduction to place marketing and offers definitions, ways to measure the effects of public relations and advertising campaign, and reasons why places try to change their images. 3-6. Discussion on 'place image' (kinds of image, measuring the image, different factors affecting a place's image) the stages of campaign building (factors involved managing the image developing the place's vision branding and positioning the place's logo, slogan and landmark SWOT analysis the various techniques used to deliver messages, including PR, advertising, promoting and marketing) crisis communications and crisis management. This part of the book is based on the strategic approach to public relations, stating that a change of image is ongoing, holistic, interactive and wide scaled, requiring much more than a quick change of logo or slogan. Part Two: 7. Presentation of 20 strategies used by cities, countries, tourist destination all over the world in order to improve their negative image 8-12. The 'Crisis? What Crisis?' approach (ignoring the crisis) employing a counter-message acknowledging the negative image geographic isolation strategy spinning liabilities into assets changing name, logo or slogan, hosting opinion leaders, hosting spotlight events ridiculing the stereotype patriotism and nationalism, changing the campaign's target audience changing reality in order to solve the crisis using movies, television shows and magazines using celebrities branding the place counter to the stereotype, association with prestigious places/brands decreasing the crisis's effect. Conclusion: 13. Introduction of a wide scale model, illustrating the proper choice of a strategy in altering an unflattering public image. The model was developed in order to give quick and user-friendly answers to local decision makers faced with dilemmas concerning issues such as image crisis, changing a place's image and media relations. For example, the concluding model answers questions such as whether one should use different media strategies during different phases of the crisis, when is one strategy better than anther, the limitations of media usage, the relations between a change in reality and changes in image, how place stereotypes can be changed, how the social and political environment affects the choice of strategies, how damage to an image can be downsized, and many more.

Eli Avraham

Papers

Destination image repair during crisis: Attracting tourism during the Arab Spring uprisings

Media strategies for improving an unfavorable city image

Media strategies for marketing places in crisis: improving the image of cities, countries and tourist destinations

Cities and their news media images

Destination marketing and image repair during tourism crises: The case of Egypt