Extending networks and mediating brands: stallholder strategies in a Mauritian market

Edensor, Tim; Kothari, Uma

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00216.x

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“…Their actual territorial shape cannot be explained without accounting for the ways in which land brokers or landowners mediate, co-opt, or resist such initiatives 125 . Their subjective meanings and significance are further modified by the cultural logics that re-interpret their symbolic content, whether this is done by transnational elites' construction and strategic deployment of fluid social identities 126 , or by small-traders' (re)negotiation of their connections to power-holders within networks of production 127 . The extent of these transformations' novelty, finally, needs to be inserted in long-term processes of state development and transformations that, since colonial times, have shaped the continuously changing social and territorial location of borders across the world.…”

Section: Economic Growth and (Multi-scalar) Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placing Borders in Development

Novak

2016

Geopolitics

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Development is inextricably related to the state-centred cartography of world spaces defined by borders, both in its historical trajectory and contemporary entanglements. Yet the multiplicity of channels and directions characterising their articulation are scarcely explored. This article contributes to this emerging field of enquiry. It delineates the essential traits of the borders and development nexus by establishing a systematic dialogue between the fields of Border Studies and Development Studies, a dialogue framed by concerns with scalar politics. More specifically, the paper places borders in development in two ways. First, it places borders in Development Studies: it identifies borders as a useful analytical vantage point that lay at the intersection between state-and non-state centred geographies of development. Second, it places Border Studies in development: focusing on the tension between borders and bordering processes, it interrogates economic growthand poverty-related policies. Three contributions to the study of development arising from placing borders in development in this way are highlighted. The paper also expands the emerging field of enquiry concerned with the relation between borders and development, by considering development policies not yet been examined through the prism of borders, and by emphasising the hierarchical and yet unpredictable nature of the borders and development articulation. At its broadest, the discussion dis-entangles the multiplicity of scales and directions in which borders, bordering and the development process intersect. It is at this scalar intersection that the force of development, and the potentials for engaging, opposing, avoiding, or subverting it, lay. IntroductionConcerns with space and the spatiality of social relations emerged more than forty years ago at the margins of radical social theory, but are now de rigueur across the social sciences. Development Studies is no exception: contemporary academic work and policy-making documents use an extensive spatial imaginary and vocabulary, as they (more or less casually) deploy terms such as "horizontal and vertical" inequalities, cross-border "flows", "de-/re-territorialisation", or "de-/rebordering". In line with the objectives of this Special Issue, the following pages engage with these scalar concerns, as they investigate the complex spatiality of development though the prism of borders.In particular, the paper delineates the essential traits of the borders and development nexus by establishing a systematic dialogue between the fields of Border Studies and Development Studies, a dialogue framed by a concern with scalar politics. In order to harness the potentialities offered by the intersection between these two fields, the following discussion places borders in development, in two ways. First, it places borders in Development Studies: that is, it examines contemporary development's discourses, policies and practices, to locate borders at the scalar intersection of development processes that unfold ...

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Section: Economic Growth and (Multi-scalar) Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placing Borders in Development

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2016

Geopolitics

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“…In many cases, the production of counterfeit products makes this impossible (as with the production of replica Manchester United shirts across Asia). While the allure of authenticity is targeted, the very production of a global brand reintroduces notions of a lack of authenticity and homogeneity besides threatening local goods that often seem to possess the cachet of authenticity by contrast (Edensor and Kothari 2006). Yet authenticity remains a key concept utilized in branding campaigns because it serves as 'a form of cultural distinction' that can be projected onto objects, places and institutions' through which consumers can 'express themselves and fix points of security and order in an amorphous modern society' (Spooner 1986: 226).…”

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‘This is Our City’: branding football and local embeddedness

Edensor

Millington

2008

Global Networks

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“…Fans, both old and new, crave success, which can be dependent on and go hand in hand with financial muscle gained from commercial exploitation of the fan-base; but they also desire authenticity and cultural distinctiveness of experience, to which such commercialisation and globalisation of the game can be deleterious (Edensor and Kothari, 2006). A statue can simultaneously project both of these potentially opposing ideals.…”

Section: Marketing Via Built Heritagementioning

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Modeling Stadium Statue Subject Choice in U.S. Baseball and English Soccer

Stride¹,

Thomas²,

Wilson³

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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

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From an almost standing start at the beginning of the 1990s, the number of statues of U.S. baseball and English soccer heroes has risen inexorably. By 1 st September 2011, 33 soccer players and 67 Major League Baseball (MLB) players were, or were soon to be, depicted by existing or commissioned subject specific statues inside or adjacent to the stadia they once performed in. Yet even amongst the very finest exponents of their sport, relatively few players are honored in this way.This paper investigates and compares the defining characteristics of stadium statue subjects in these two national sports. We first developed a shortlist of potential causal factors likely to influence subject selection by considering the motivations behind statue building. The MLB Hall of Fame and the English Football League "100 Legends" list were then used as samples of the best performers from each sport. Logistic regression models were built to test the effects of potential predictors for the selection of statue subjects; these included loyalty, locality, longevity, performance of the player and their team, national recognition, sympathy and the effect of nostalgia or memory (i.e., the era a player performed in).The optimal models for soccer and baseball correctly identified depiction or non-depiction for 87% and 90.6% of the respective samples, and their significant constituent effects indicated the importance of club loyalty and era. Players who played most or all of their careers at one club or franchise and those active in the 1950s and 1960s were most likely to be depicted. This latter finding in particular suggests that the role of a statue as a nostalgia/heritage marketing object impacts upon subject choice, which is thus dependent in part on the "chance" effect of birth era. Distinct characteristics of each sport, such as baseball franchise relocation and international soccer success, were also found to have a significant effect upon the probability of depiction. Predicted probabilities were calculated for players with statues who were not Football League "Legends" or MLB Hall of Famers; these confirm the viability of the model outside of the elite performers it was constructed upon.

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Extending networks and mediating brands: stallholder strategies in a Mauritian market

Cited by 27 publications

References 27 publications

Placing Borders in Development

Placing Borders in Development

‘This is Our City’: branding football and local embeddedness

Modeling Stadium Statue Subject Choice in U.S. Baseball and English Soccer

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