Schemes of (Re)interpreting the Cultural Themes in the Process of Building the City Image

• Authors: Aleksandra Wycisk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A city marketing narrative consists in an attempt to provide a new city image or strengthen the existing one. The process of creating the city’s image may affect (re)interpretation of the history, culture, and heritage of the city. In city marketing narrative, the most desired meanings and associations are sequenced as primary, while the most unwanted ones are supposed to be gradually forgotten and eventually eliminated. The presence or significant absence of certain topics, use and abuse of positive themes, and elimination of negative ones may result in disturbing cultural themes. The article explores how the city marketing narrative (re)interpretsmyths, stereotypes, culture, history, and heritage. The project was focused on the city marketing narratives of five Polish cities (Lublin, Poznan, Wroclaw, Katowice and Gdansk). A quantitative and qualitative research study was conducted (in-depth interviews, n=48; content analysis of cities’ marketing narratives; CAWI, n=314). The research made it possible to name three schemes of dealing with history.

Keywords

EN

city marketing; cultural heritage; cultural identity; stereotypes; simulacrum

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 188
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 525-540

Dates

published

2014-12-31

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Wycisk

• Silesian University in Katowice