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“melissa aronczyk1”

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  • A Strategic Nature

    Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism

    by Melissa Aronczyk, Maria I. Espinoza ...
    A look at how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years. In A Strategic Nature, Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza examine public relations as a social and political force that shapes both our understanding of the environmental crises we now face and our responses to them. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnography, and archival ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Branding Latin America

    Strategies, Aims, Resistance

    by Rebecca Ogden, Andrea Paz Cerda Pereira, Andrew Ginger, Paula Gómez Carrillo, César Jiménez-Martínez, Félix Lossio Chávez, Claire Taylor, Dunja Fehimovic, Melissa Aronczyk1, Brett Levinson2 ...
    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 ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Branding the Nation

    The Global Business of National Identity

    by Melissa Aronczyk ...
    National governments around the world are turning to branding consultants, public relations advisers and strategic communications experts to help them "brand" their jurisdiction. Using the tools, techniques and expertise of commercial branding is believed to help nations articulate more coherent and cohesive identities, attract foreign capital, and maintain citizen loyalty. In short, the goal of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • Labor in the Global Digital Economy

    The Cybertariat Comes of Age

    by Ursula Huws ...
    For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect.Ursula ... Read more

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  • Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

    by Sami Moisio ...
    We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a ... Read more

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  • Discreet Power

    How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas

    by Christina Garsten, Adrienne Sörbom ...
    Series series Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate the WEF within an emerging system of "discretionary governance," in which actors craft ideas and ... Read more

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  • All In

    A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse

    by Mariana Rodrigues and Sinan Eden ...
    We have an urgent problem to solve. Our societies and progressive political organizations are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They have been there for some time and are imploding in uncertainty. Everyone – organizers and otherwise – is more and more aware of two sets of information. The first is that the capitalist system is the root cause of the climate crisis and has absolutely ... Read more

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  • Aftermath

    The Cultures of the Economic Crisis

    Edited by Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso, João Caraça ...
    The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show that we are entering a world that is very different from the social and economic conditions that characterized the rise of global, informational capitalism in the preceding three decades. The policies ... Read more

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  • Privatizing Poland

    Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor

    by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn ...
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    The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of ... Read more

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  • Resourceful Civil Society

    Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Civil Society Organizations

    Edited by Zhanna Kravchenko, Lisa Kings, Katarzyna Jezierska ...
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    This open access book examines how civil society organizations in Poland, Russia, and Sweden (re)act to transformations of opportunities and limitations in access to various forms of resources. The volume’s contributions discuss the constraints associated with different types of resources as well as organizations’ capacities to generate resources—or compensate for their lack—as they negotiate and ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

    Edited by Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock, Helena Sousa ...
    Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates ... Read more

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