TY - BOOK AU - Pascale Cohen-Avenel AU - Graham Roberts PY - 2024 CY - Bruxelles, Belgium PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1663-9367 SN - 9782875745651 TI - Whose Space is it Anyway? T2 - Place Branding and the Politics of Representation DO - 10.3726/b21266 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1376326 N2 - This volume examines the potentially deleterious impact of place branding on the social fabric, ecosystems and local economies of the places concerned. As the different essays show, place branding is a fundamentally political practice, often driven by hidden agendas that marginalize certain groups within society. Contributors explore place branding from a wide variety of angles, including: the role played by the visual arts in city branding; the applied arts, and speci cally the fashion industry’s potential for shaping perceptions of a particular place; the different ways in which sport has been exploited by the political elites; the role of design in place branding, including the architectural design of sports stadia; and the potentially insidious economic and societal consequences of excessive consumption of branded places. KW - Place branding, Identity, Self-representation, Cultural studies, Area studies, Urban studies, Cultural geography, Fashion studies, Marketing and branding, Visual arts LA - English ER -