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- Andersson, Ida, 1982-
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Geographies of Place Branding : Researching through small and medium sized cities
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Place branding is commonly conceptualized with a focus on big cities, such as London, New York and Singapore, building from concepts and models from mainstream branding theory. In contrast to such conceptualizations, this thesis focuses on place branding in small and medium-sized cities. The present thesis aims to study place branding from a geographical perspective. It starts with debates theoretical and empirical understandings of place branding; what it is and how it is affecting the places where it is introduced. The thesis develops and argues for a perspective of territoriality and relationality to place branding discussing concepts, methods and empirical approaches to carry out place branding research using geographical perspectives. Empirically, this thesis focuses on in-depth studies of place branding in small and medium-sized cities in Sweden. By analyzing the development of place branding over the course of time, nuances and aspects of both territorial and relational origin emerge, situating place branding practices within a wider spatial contextualization. Four individual papers are presented, which taken together contribute to the aim of the thesis. Paper 1 introduces the place branding research field in geography and how it has developed; Paper 2 investigates the phenomena of flagship buildings located in small cities and towns; Paper 3 discusses the relationship between policy tourism and place branding; and Paper 4 analyzes how local environmental policies are affected by green place branding. The thesis demonstrates the complex and continuously interchangeable spatial structures and place contexts that create and re-produce the geographies of place branding. Here, research models and methodological examples are presented to illustrate how place branding can be studied from a geographical perspective and thus improve theoretical understandings of place branding.
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- Balogh, Péter, 1982-
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Perpetual borders : German-Polish cross-border contacts in the Szczecin area
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Borderlands are often peripheral geographically, administratively, and economically. A particularly illustrative case is the Szczecin area at the border between Poland and Germany, where a large city on one side neighbours to a sparsely populated hinterland on the other. There is a number of similar cases throughout Europe, but studies on them point to a mixed level of linkages following the opening and removal of the physical border.At the project’s start there were few if any studies on the Szczecin area per se, which was here studied through various methods. On the one hand, different pre-EU enlargement plans and visions for the area’s development were compared with practices and realities of recent years. This shows that earlier imaginations on the development potentials have not quite materialised, although some of them were probably too optimistic and ambitious from the beginning. Some of the area’s potentials following EU-enlargement have been more successfully exploited than others, and disproportionately by actors coming from outside. On the other hand, cross-border contacts were studied in the discourses on and attitudes towards the other side among local and regional elites, and among local residents more generally. This revealed a polarised attitudinal landscape, not least when compared to country-wide opinion surveys in both Germany and Poland. This is in line with other studies showing that identities are particularly accentuated in border situations, where the Other is more frequently encountered.These results support recent investigations pointing to a continued relevance of the border even after the physical barriers are removed. At the same time, another contribution of this work to border studies is that the time and contingency of the importance of identities and of the border needs more attention. In the Szczecin area, awareness of national identities and of the boundary appeared to be particularly high just after changes in the border’s status occurred – i.e. in 1989–1991, and then around the years 2007–2010. But while its importance may be fluctuating over time, given the opportunities and resources the boundary provides it will always be maintained in some forms.
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- Berger, Sune, 1941-, et al.
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Atlas över INRE SKANDINAVIEN : Befolkning, näringsliv och livsmiljö
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gränsregionen mellan Sverige och Norge – Inre Skandinavien – är temat för denna bok. Här ger vi en statistisk och kartografisk bild av såväl likheter som skillnader inom regionen. Gränsen synliggör både nationella olikheter och samhörigheter. Den norska delen av Inre Skandinavien karaktäriseras å ena sidan till stor del av den relativa närheten till Osloregionen, medan den svenska delen ligger mera perifert i förhållande till den egna huvudstadsregionen. Det återspeglar sig i näringslivs- och befolkningsutvecklingen. Å andra sidan liknar glesbygdsdelarna i respektive land varandra när det gäller försörjnings- och levnadsvillkor. Boken är resultatet av ett samarbete inom Interreg IIIA mellan forskare från Østlandsforskning i Hamar och från Cerut (Centrum för forskning om regional utveckling) och Jämställdhetscentrum vid Karlstads universitet. Projektet Omställning och utveckling i gränsregionen startade 2003 och består av ett antal delprojekt som på olika sätt belyser gränsregionens näringsliv, lokal och regional politik samt kultur, identitet och könsrelationer. Resultaten från projektet kommer successivt att publiceras i delrapporter och i en sammanfattande slutrapport. Denna bok utgör den första delrapporten och den föreligger i såväl tryckt form som i pdf-format med kartor och diagram i färg. Denna kan nås genom länk från respektive forskargrupp.
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- Berger, Sune, et al.
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Globalised Economy in Värmland
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Ingår i: Journal of Nordregio. - Stockholm : Nordregio. - 1650-5891. ; 9:3, s. 22-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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