Open Access
No space, No Choice, No Jobs, No Logo : taking aim at the brand bullies
Reads0
Chats0
About:
The article was published on 2009-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1096 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Logo & Space (commercial competition).read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Why Do Brands Cause Trouble? A Dialectical Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the rise of the modern cultural engineering paradigm of branding, premised upon a consumer culture that granted marketers cultural authority, and describe the current post-postmodern consumer culture, which is premised on the pursuit of personal sovereignty through brands.
Journal ArticleDOI
Squaring the circle? Some thoughts on the idea of sustainable development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the theory and practice of sustainable development in the context of three criticisms (it is vague, attracts hypocrites and fosters delusions), and argue for an approach to sustainability that is integrative, is action-oriented, goes beyond technical fixes, incorporates a recognition of the social construction of sustainable Development, and engages local communities in new ways.
Journal ArticleDOI
Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization: The Rise of Transnational Private Regulation of Labor and Environmental Conditions1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a different account by viewing institutions as the outcome of political contestation and by analyzing conflict and institutional entrepreneurship among a wide array of actors, and used a comparative case study design to explain the formation of social and environmental certification associations.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Personalization of Politics Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation
TL;DR: In this article, a framework for understanding large-scale individualized collective action that is often coordinated through digital media technologies is proposed, where individually expressive personal action frames displace collective action frames in many protest causes.
Journal ArticleDOI
The age of responsibilization: on market-embedded morality
TL;DR: This paper argued that contemporary tendencies to economize public domains and methods of government also produce tendencies to moralize markets in general and business enterprises in particular, and that the moralization of markets further sustains, rather than undermines, neo-liberal governmentalities and vision of civil society, citizenship and responsible social action.
References
More filters
Book ChapterDOI
The tourist city
Gregory Ashworth,John Tunbridge +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the relationship between tourism, heritage, and cities in a triptych of three elements, namely an activity, tourism, a set of resources, and a setting.