Marketing Graffiti: The View From the Street

Marketing Graffiti: The View From the Street

by Michael Saren (Author)

Synopsis

Rejecting the managerially-driven structures normally imposed on the subject, Saren explains marketing from the perspective of the pivotal figure in the process: the consumer. He addresses readers as active consumers and producers of marketing, and therefore already well-equipped to appreciate the rationale and practice behind the process.

Critically examining the wide range of products, businesses, technologies, information, services, ads, packaging and branding, Saren utilizes everyday images and phenomena to draw out the conceptual foundations of marketing in its social and cultural context that we all experience.

By taking this alternative approach - linking the abstract concepts to the everyday world the reader already knows -Marketing Graffiti explains marketing as consumers experience it, as active participants in it reflecting the variety in the bricollage subject that is marketing.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title
Published: 15 May 2006

ISBN 10: 0750656972
ISBN 13: 9780750656979

Media Reviews
About marketing...

`Marketing has become the soul of the corporation.'

Gilles Deleuze, 1992


`In the surplus society the customer is more than king: the customer is the mother of all dictators.'

Jonas Ridderstrale & Kjell Nordstrom, 1999


`The majesty of the customer ... hardly plays any part any longer for the individual in relation to the advertising apparatus, the standardization of commodities and other economic realities.'

Max Horkheimer, 1967


`If marketing can encourage us to buy a Ferrari, it can also persuade us to drive it safely - or resist the temptation to steal one'. Gerard Hastings, 2006

If the metaphor of the machine inspired managers in the industrial age, the image of living systems may inspire a truly sustainable post-industrial marketing.

P Senge & G Carstedt . 2001


Marketing is everything.'

Regis McKenna 1991


The shoppingisation of urban life .... the city is being configured according to the mall

Rem Koolhaas, 2001


Baudrillardians never make it past the shopping mall

Brian Massumi 1992


About graffiti...

`A wall is the best place to publish your work'

Banksy, (Graffiti Artist), 2005


`That's enough. I can't take any more',

Duncan Lloyd & Paul Smith, (`Graffiti' Maximo Park) 2005
Author Bio
Michael Saren is Professor of Marketing at Leicester University Management Centre. He has a doctorate from University of Bath and previously held Chairs in Marketing at the Universities of Stirling and Strathclyde. His research covers the marketing of technology, critical marketing, consumer culture and marketing theory. His work has been published in many academic management journals in the UK, Europe and the USA, including the International Journal of Research in Marketing, Omega, British Journal of Management, the Journal of Business Ethics, Service Industries Journal and Industrial Marketing Management. He is a founding editor of the journal Marketing Theory Professor Saren is co-author with David Ford of Marketing and Managing Technology (Thomson Business Press, 2001) and co-editor with Douglas Brownlie, Robin Wensley, and Richard Whittington of Rethinking Marketing, (Sage Publications, 1999). He has been convener of the Marketing Stream at the first four Critical Management Studies International Conferences, 1999-2005 and one of the 'Gang of Six' who ran the ESRC Seminar Series in Critical Marketing. He was Chair of the 7th International Relationship Marketing Colloquium in 1999 and Chair of the 2003 European Marketing Academy Conference