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Between Brexit, efforts to 'Make America great again' and ongoing
appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the
intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and
consumer choices has been brought to the fore. This book maps out
this terrain and provides a framework for how research on 'Made in'
campaigns and programmes in individual countries can be placed into
a broader historical context. The book argues that the history of
'Made in' can be used to shed light on society at large: the actors
that have promoted it, the institutions that have regulated it, and
the cultural environments that have attributed it meaning. At times
'Made in' has been a basic, descriptive trademark while, in other
periods, it has been a key component of carefully developed
commercial brands, and in yet other instances it has been used in
attempts to forge and redefine national identities. The book opens
with an introduction to the three key factors which have featured
prominently in 'Made in' campaigns - commercial logic, national
economic policy, and it's use as an instrument in political
discourse - and an overview of the evolution of 'Made in' from a
marketing perspective. This is followed by country-specific
discussions of 'Made in' through case studies including countries
in Western Europe, US, Japan and the antipodes. This book will be
of significant interest to students and scholars of economic
history, business history and marketing.
This book argues that Ann Leckie's novel Ancillary Justice offers a
devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic
injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following
an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that
examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial
economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice's
exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these
issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of
contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical
work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book
concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on
each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters.
Indications of geographic origin for foodstuffs and manufactures
have become an important source of brand value since the beginnings
of globalization during the late nineteenth century. In this work,
David M. Higgins explores the early nineteenth-century business
campaigns to secure national and international protection of
geographic brands. He shows how these efforts culminated in the
introduction of legal protocols which protect such brands,
including, 'Champagne', 'Sheffield', 'Swiss made' watches and 'Made
in the USA'. Higgins explores the major themes surrounding these
indications, tying in the history of global marketing and the
relevant laws on intellectual property. He also questions the
effectiveness of European Union policy to promote 'regional' and
'local' foods and why such initiatives brought the EU in conflict
with North America, especially the US He extends the study with a
reflection on contemporary issues affecting globalization,
intellectual property, less developed countries, and supply chains.
Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells's War
of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade
and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what
it's like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David
Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are
thoughtful and provocative, reverse colonization fantasy has also
led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional
thinking in our current political culture. It has become popular
among groups such as anti-feminists, white supremacists, and
far-right reactionaries to appropriate a sense of righteous,
anti-imperial victimhood-the sense that white men, in particular,
are somehow colonized victims fighting an insurgent resistance
against an oppressive establishment. Nothing could be timelier, as
an armed far-right mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,
in an effort to stop the presidential election from being "stolen
from them." Higgins shows that this reverse colonization stance
depends upon a science fictional logic that achieved dominance
within imperial fantasy during the 1960s and has continued to gain
momentum ever since. By identifying with fantastic forms of
victimhood, subjects who already enjoy social hegemony are able to
justify economic inequality, expansions of police and military
power, climatological devastation, new articulations of racism, and
countless other forms of violence-all purportedly in the name of
security, self-defense, and self-protection.
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