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View article: Ontological (in)security in servicescapes: Consuming the Christmas market experience
Ontological (in)security in servicescapes: Consuming the Christmas market experience Open
This interpretive, qualitative study explores ontological (in)security within the servicescape of Manchester’s Christmas Market. We scrutinise this temporary setting, revealing evidence of paradoxes which create uncertainty and ontological…
View article: Seeking Organizational Geographies: A multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing
Seeking Organizational Geographies: A multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing Open
In the context of debates about organizational space, this paper undertakes a multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing. Drawing on an extensive ethnographic study of a housing estate, we use the territory, place, scale, net…
View article: Booksellers as placemakers: Innovative roles of independent booksellers in high street retailing
Booksellers as placemakers: Innovative roles of independent booksellers in high street retailing Open
High street vitality and viability has been a long-standing topic in UK research and policy debates. While the presence and role of the independent retailer is discussed in the associated academic literature, specific consideration of inde…
View article: The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing
The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing Open
This paper proposes that everyday life in housing contains the possibility to shape and transform its material, cultural, and social conditions. Mobilizing a materialist ontology and insights from human geography, we examine how shared spa…
View article: Reframing high street viability: A review and synthesis in the English context
Reframing high street viability: A review and synthesis in the English context Open
Changing consumer trends, waves of retail decentralisation, and various socio-economic and environmental shocks have exacerbated the well-recognised challenges of retail-dominant English high streets in recent years. The decline and 'death…
View article: Towards ecological place management in UK housing associations: organising tomorrow’s places
Towards ecological place management in UK housing associations: organising tomorrow’s places Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise how place management practices in UK housing associations (HAs) involve processes of ecological place management. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographic fieldwork focusing on how comm…
View article: Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes
Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes Open
The radical changes to the UK town centre retail landscape over the past 60 years are well documented. What are less well documented are accounts of how the internal processes of town centre governance impact on the retail landscape. From …
View article: The contribution of posters to the venereal disease campaign in Second World War Britain
The contribution of posters to the venereal disease campaign in Second World War Britain Open
In 1942, the British government placed large posters addressing the ‘problem’ of venereal disease (VD) in prominent public spaces, as an attempt to manage this ‘threat’ exacerbated by war. Utilising extensive archival research, this articl…
View article: Retail occupancy and vacancy in King Street, Manchester: applying microhistorical principles to retailing
Retail occupancy and vacancy in King Street, Manchester: applying microhistorical principles to retailing Open
This paper focuses on contemporary retail history, analysing trends in ground floor retail occupancy within King Street, Manchester, UK, from 1967 onwards, through an analysis of Goad shopping centre plan data over this period. The paper a…
View article: The Role of Community-Led Food Retailers in Enabling Urban Resilience
The Role of Community-Led Food Retailers in Enabling Urban Resilience Open
Our research examines the extent to which community-led food retailers (CLFRs) contribute to the resilience and sustainability of urban retail systems and communities in the UK, contributing to existing debates on the sustainability and re…
View article: Examining the Resilience of English High Streets during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Examining the Resilience of English High Streets during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sustainability and resilience of town centres and high streets is being constantly (re)assessed, as more information becomes available in terms of its economic, social and behavioural effe…
View article: Place brandings present and past realities, and future research agendas
Place brandings present and past realities, and future research agendas Open
In this introductory chapter the authors provide some background and insight into how and why they undertook editorship of this book, A Research Agenda for Place Branding. This is followed by examination of the present and past realities o…
View article: ‘To us it’s still Boundary Park’: fan discourses on the corporate (re)naming of football stadia
‘To us it’s still Boundary Park’: fan discourses on the corporate (re)naming of football stadia Open
This paper explores how the corporate (re)naming of football stadia and their urban environs is negotiated through fans’ toponymic discourses and associated commemoration. Critical toponymy research emphasises oppositional toponymic tensio…
View article: Tourism and Hospitality industry resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from England
Tourism and Hospitality industry resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from England Open
The tourism and hospitality industries have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with widespread closures and later re-opening times than other areas of economic activity. However, little is known about the resilience of th…
View article: Co‐creation and co‐design in pop‐up stores: The intersection of marketing and design research?
Co‐creation and co‐design in pop‐up stores: The intersection of marketing and design research? Open
Co‐creation as a concept and process has been prominent in both marketing and design research over the past ten years. Referring respectively to the active collaboration of firms with their stakeholders in value creation, or to the partici…
View article: The importance of context in understanding football fans’ reactions to corporate stadia naming rights sponsorships
The importance of context in understanding football fans’ reactions to corporate stadia naming rights sponsorships Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore fans’ reactions to corporate naming rights sponsorship of football club stadia and identify a range of contextual factors impacting these reactions. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative,…
View article: Flags, society and space: Towards a research agenda for vexillgeography
Flags, society and space: Towards a research agenda for vexillgeography Open
This paper proposes that flags are an important but under‐theorised aspect of geographical inquiry and seeks to outline a new field of “vexillgeography,” which critically embraces the spatiality and performativity of flags. We start by out…
View article: A kaleidoscopic view of the territorialized consumption of place
A kaleidoscopic view of the territorialized consumption of place Open
Drawing on Brighenti’s (2010, 2014) theoretical exposition of territorology, we extend current conceptualizations of place within the marketing literature by demonstrating that place is relationally constructed through territorializing con…
View article: Scalar tensions in urban toponymic inscription: the corporate (re)naming of football stadia
Scalar tensions in urban toponymic inscription: the corporate (re)naming of football stadia Open
This article examines issues of scale in urban toponymic inscription. The specific focus of inquiry is toponymic commodification, whereby corporate brand names of international scope are imposed on English football stadia and their locally…
View article: The World Towns Framework: a call to action
The World Towns Framework: a call to action Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the background to the development of the World Towns’ Framework, developed in June 2016 at the inaugural World Towns Leadership Summit in Scotland. The paper also provides an academic underpi…
View article: Feed People First
Feed People First Open
Service research highlights the utility of adopting a service ecosystem approach to studying service innovation. It suggests that service innovations can arise from challenging and developing the institutions (i.e., norms, rules, practices…
View article: <i>Place and marketing in a dynamic world</i>. 1st Consumer Research Summit
<i>Place and marketing in a dynamic world</i>. 1st Consumer Research Summit Open
The aim of this one-day conference was to "explore the linkages between place, identity, marketing and consumption".In articulating this aim, the conference addressed issues relating to what Cresswell (2004) terms the social constructionis…
View article: Theorizing temporary spatial clusters and institutional boundary-work in industrial marketing
Theorizing temporary spatial clusters and institutional boundary-work in industrial marketing Open
To better understand the nature of temporary spatial clusters (TSC's) in industrial marketing settings, this conceptual paper first provides a theoretical synthesis of spatial understanding from the industrial marketing (IM) and economic g…
View article: Digital Chorographies: conceptualising experiential representation and marketing of urban/architectural geographies
Digital Chorographies: conceptualising experiential representation and marketing of urban/architectural geographies Open
An important theme in place marketing, branding, and architectural literature – and practice – is the development of a strong, attractive image, through (primarily) visual representation of a location. But considering that today we live in…