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As public and private sectors become stakeholders, nation-states become corporations, interests become strategic objectives, and identities become brands, branding emerges as a key feature of the pervasiveness of market logic in today’s world. Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance offers a sustained critical analysis of these transformations, which see identities deliberately (re)defined according to the principle of competition and strategically (re)oriented towards the market. Through context-sensitive case studies that foreground a specific, under examined set of practices and concepts, this volume draws particular attention not only to the reconfigurations of citizenship, identity, and culture according to an insidious logic of market competitiveness, but also to the ways in which different actors resist, survive, and even thrive in such a context. In so doing, it illuminates the ambivalent relationships between the local, national, and global; the individual and collective; the public and private; and the economic, political, and cultural landscapes that characterize contemporary Latin America and the wider world.
Rebecca Ogden is lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Kent.Dunja Fehimovic is lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese at Newcastle University.
ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordMelissa AronczykIntroduction: Context and Contestation Dunja Fehimovic and Rebecca OgdenChapter One: Promotion before Nation Branding: Chile at the World ExhibitionsAndrea Paz Cerda PereiraChapter Two: The Counter-Narratives of Nation Branding: The Case of PeruFélix Lossio ChávezChapter Three: Living the Brand: Authenticity and Affective Capital in Contemporary Cuban TourismRebecca OgdenChapter Four: Covert Nation Branding and the Neoliberal Subject: The Case of ‘It’s Colombia, NOT Columbia’Paula Gómez CarrilloChapter Five: Resisting the Brand, Resisting the Platform? Digital Genres and The Contestation of Corporate Powers in Belén Gache’s Radikal karaoke Claire TaylorChapter Six: Protests, News, and Nation Branding: The Role of Foreign Journalists inConstructing and Projecting the Image of Brazil during the June 2013 Demonstrations César Jiménez-MartínezChapter Seven: International Love? ‘Latino’ Music Videos, the Latin Brand of Universality, and PitbullAndrew GingerChapter Eight: The Paradoxes of the ‘Cuban Brand’: Authenticity, Resistance, and Heroic Victimhood in Cuban FilmDunja FehimovicChapter Nine: Branding, Sense, and Their ThreatsBrett LevinsonEpilogueDunja Fehimovic and Rebecca OgdenAbout the Contributors
This volume is a must-read for scholars and students interested in the interdisciplinary study of place branding. Besides the Latin American perspective, the authors contribute to the discussions that focus on tensions between media versus policy, culture versus economics, and external image projection versus internal identity construction and resident reactions.