Branding the Middle East

Communication Strategies and Image Building from Qom to Casablanca
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-074062-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 660 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1114 g

Reihe: Studies on modern orient

This edited volume investigates place, product, and personal branding in the Middle East and North Africa, including some studies from adjacent regions and the wider Islamicate world. Going beyond simply presenting logos and slogans, it critically analyses processes of strategic communication and image building under general conditions of globalisation, neoliberalisation, and postmodernisation and, in a regional perspective, of lasting authoritarian rule and increased endeavours for “worlding.” In particular, it looks at the multiple actors involved in branding activities, their interests and motives, and investigates tools, channels, and forms of branding. A major interest exists in the entanglements of different spatial scales and in the (in)consistencies of communication measures. Attention is paid to reconfigurations of certain images over time and to the positioning of objects of branding in time and space. Historical case studies supplement the focus on contemporary branding efforts. While branding in the Western world and many emerging economies has been meticulously analysed, this edited volume fills an important gap in the research on MENA countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wippel, Steffen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Steffen Wippel
, Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, Tunis, Tunesien / Philipps-Universität Marburg.

Steffen Wippel, Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, Tunis, Tunesien / Philipps-Universität Marburg.