Origination (eBook)

Andy Pike is Professor of Local and Regional Development and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. He is co-author of Local and Regional Development (2006) (with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and John Tomaney), editor of Brands and Branding Geographies (2011), and co-editor of Handbook of Local and Regional Development (2011) (with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and John Tomaney).

Series Editor Preface viii

Acknowledgements ix

Permissions x

List of Tables xi

List of Figures xii

1 Introduction 1

2 The Geographies of Brands and Branding 23

3 Origination 59

4 'Local' Origination ... Newcastle Brown Ale 88

5 'National' Origination ... Burberry 112

6 'Global' Origination ... Apple 139

7 Territorial Development 171

8 Conclusions 194

References 207

Index 224

"Overall, Origination presents a promising conceptual and research framework capable of revealing the multiple facets of brand geographies." (Consumption Markets & Culture, 1 December 2015)

'Andy Pike has given us a deeply researched and much needed
analysis of the ways in which brands and branding are intertwined
with space and place. Through a series of revelatory case studies
of products and their places of origin, we learn how spatial
context matters in the production of branded meaning and
value. Origination will be an essential resource
for scholars of branding, geography, cultural studies, and the
contemporary global economy.'

-- Miriam Greenberg, Associate Professor of
Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

'The symbolic landscape of late capitalism is cluttered with
brands, but this is hardly a featureless, flat earth marked only by
free-floating, rootless signs. In Origination, Andy
Pike provides the first systematic exploration of the geographies
of brands and branding -- many of which, of course, are hidden
in plain sight -- combining creative theorization with
compelling case studies. An original!'

-- Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography, University
of British Columbia, Canada