Cecilia Cassinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 2935829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Cassinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassinger |
| SIGNATURE | CASSINGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0052-4045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rhythms of urban injustice: A Spatial Reimagining of Marketing in Tourist Cities
This paper challenges dominant paradigms of place marketing by foregrounding its role in the production of spatial injustice in urban consumption spectacles. Drawing on rhythmanalysis and spatial injustice, we conceptualize tourism-driven place marketing as a form of spatial production privileging spectacle, circulation, and visibility – often at the expense of everyday life. Based on ethnographic research in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Barcelona (…
Communicating a sense of safety: The public experience of Swedish Police Instagram communication
Purpose The research aim of this article is to generate novel insights into how public sector organizations (PSOs) strategically communicate with the public about critical issues on social media. To this end, the study explores the public's experiences of the Swedish Police's sense of safety communication on Instagram in the third largest city in Sweden, where the lack of a sense of public safety is a main societal challenge. Design/methodology/a…
Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities: Storying Stockholm 1900–2020
This article examines the continuities and discontinuities in the historical trajectory of the commercialisation of places. It outlines a performative approach to understanding how the process of turning cities into commercial products changes in time and space. Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is used as an illustrative example of the spatio-temporal trajectory of commercialisation during the from 1900 to 2020. By embracing a narrative analysis…
Centering gender in public diplomacy and nation branding: An Invitation to Reimagine the Future of the Field
The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism
Using Malmo Turism-a tourist bureau in the south of Sweden-as a case, this chapter examines its digital transformation; from being based foremost on promoting storytelling of real-life interactions
Place brand communication as aspirational talk-further exploring the constitutive model of communication
This paper introduces the concept of aspirational talk to examine the constitutive features of place brand communication. Aspirational talk builds on a performative view of communication and is characterised by a gap between future-oriented visionary talk and concrete action. The study explores place brand communication as aspirational talk through a qualitative case study of how place branding is used to drive changed in two Swedish cities. Two …
Nation branding and the social imaginary of participation: An exploratory study of the Swedish Number campaign
The Swedish Number is a 2016 marketing campaign by an independent tourist association that relies heavily on a developing heritage of Swedish nation branding initiatives. It uses media technologies to encourage citizen participation in promoting Swedish values, partly for the purpose of showing the country’s authentic side and partly for generating publicity. This article conducts a case study of the campaign in order to explore the ways in which…
Brand New Images? Implications of Instagram Photography for Place Branding
The aim of this article is to develop an understanding of what happens when Instagram photography is used for branding a place. Questions raised are which photographs are taken and published, does the practice result in novel ways of representing a place, and, in turn the image of a place. A practice approach to photography is used where focus is directed to the performative aspect of photography. Fifteen qualitative interviews were conducted wit…
Place brand communication as aspirational talk-further exploring the constitutive model of communication
This paper introduces the concept of aspirational talk to examine the constitutive features of place brand communication. Aspirational talk builds on a performative view of communication and is characterised by a gap between future-oriented visionary talk and concrete action. The study explores place brand communication as aspirational talk through a qualitative case study of how place branding is used to drive changed in two Swedish cities. Two …
Nation branding and the social imaginary of participation: An exploratory study of the Swedish Number campaign
The Swedish Number is a 2016 marketing campaign by an independent tourist association that relies heavily on a developing heritage of Swedish nation branding initiatives. It uses media technologies to encourage citizen participation in promoting Swedish values, partly for the purpose of showing the country’s authentic side and partly for generating publicity. This article conducts a case study of the campaign in order to explore the ways in which…
Centering gender in public diplomacy and nation branding: An Invitation to Reimagine the Future of the Field
The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism
Using Malmo Turism-a tourist bureau in the south of Sweden-as a case, this chapter examines its digital transformation; from being based foremost on promoting storytelling of real-life interactions
Place brand communication as aspirational talk-further exploring the constitutive model of communication
This paper introduces the concept of aspirational talk to examine the constitutive features of place brand communication. Aspirational talk builds on a performative view of communication and is characterised by a gap between future-oriented visionary talk and concrete action. The study explores place brand communication as aspirational talk through a qualitative case study of how place branding is used to drive changed in two Swedish cities. Two …
Brand New Images? Implications of Instagram Photography for Place Branding
The aim of this article is to develop an understanding of what happens when Instagram photography is used for branding a place. Questions raised are which photographs are taken and published, does the practice result in novel ways of representing a place, and, in turn the image of a place. A practice approach to photography is used where focus is directed to the performative aspect of photography. Fifteen qualitative interviews were conducted wit…
Place brand communication as aspirational talk-further exploring the constitutive model of communication
This paper introduces the concept of aspirational talk to examine the constitutive features of place brand communication. Aspirational talk builds on a performative view of communication and is characterised by a gap between future-oriented visionary talk and concrete action. The study explores place brand communication as aspirational talk through a qualitative case study of how place branding is used to drive changed in two Swedish cities. Two …
Nation branding and the social imaginary of participation: An exploratory study of the Swedish Number campaign
The Swedish Number is a 2016 marketing campaign by an independent tourist association that relies heavily on a developing heritage of Swedish nation branding initiatives. It uses media technologies to encourage citizen participation in promoting Swedish values, partly for the purpose of showing the country’s authentic side and partly for generating publicity. This article conducts a case study of the campaign in order to explore the ways in which…
The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism
Using Malmo Turism-a tourist bureau in the south of Sweden-as a case, this chapter examines its digital transformation; from being based foremost on promoting storytelling of real-life interactions
Centering gender in public diplomacy and nation branding: An Invitation to Reimagine the Future of the Field
Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities: Storying Stockholm 1900–2020
This article examines the continuities and discontinuities in the historical trajectory of the commercialisation of places. It outlines a performative approach to understanding how the process of turning cities into commercial products changes in time and space. Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is used as an illustrative example of the spatio-temporal trajectory of commercialisation during the from 1900 to 2020. By embracing a narrative analysis…
Communicating a sense of safety: The public experience of Swedish Police Instagram communication
Purpose The research aim of this article is to generate novel insights into how public sector organizations (PSOs) strategically communicate with the public about critical issues on social media. To this end, the study explores the public's experiences of the Swedish Police's sense of safety communication on Instagram in the third largest city in Sweden, where the lack of a sense of public safety is a main societal challenge. Design/methodology/a…
Rhythms of urban injustice: A Spatial Reimagining of Marketing in Tourist Cities
This paper challenges dominant paradigms of place marketing by foregrounding its role in the production of spatial injustice in urban consumption spectacles. Drawing on rhythmanalysis and spatial injustice, we conceptualize tourism-driven place marketing as a form of spatial production privileging spectacle, circulation, and visibility – often at the expense of everyday life. Based on ethnographic research in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Barcelona (…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (4 works) · Performative utterance (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Ideology (3 works)