The rhetorical devices for marketing and branding Johannesburg as a city: a critical review

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dc.citation.doidoi:10.1177/0308518X15599288en_ZA
dc.citation.epage2152en_ZA
dc.citation.spage2134en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSihlongonyane, Mfaniseni Fana
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-19T11:57:12Z
dc.date.available2018-01-19T11:57:12Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionCities are no longer just built, they are imagineden_ZA
dc.description.abstractSince the founding of the city of Johannesburg in 1886, the city has taken up the quest to project a modernist image whose meaning has an international reach and a local foundation. In this endeavor, its locational advantages, product (gold), ethnicity (African), race, and class (notwithstanding the interconnections of these factors) has been used as part of the branding narratives of the city. However, the use of these factors has been closely shaped by the political ideologies of the day. While the brand imaginary of the apartheid government was largely Euro-modernist and dependent on the use of locational, product, and racial influences, the post-apartheid vision has been Afro- modern relying on the fusion of global and African images informed by ethnicity and class. Whereas the two governments had political systems that differ widely on ideological grounds, both have had to contend with the indelible influence of the global market in the production of the city’s brand narratives. The paper traces the different trajectories of image/branding narratives of the city from its founding to the present. Consequently, it posits the theoretical argument that a global-African imaginary as a form of African modernity is the driving force for the branding of Johannesburg. The goal of the paper is not to assess the effectiveness of the marketing campaigns but to gain insights into the city’s self-reflective efforts at re-imagining the city’s identity as captured in branding texts through a critical and interpretive approach. The paper presents an Afro-modernity that is relational and inclusively intercultural but perverted by the hegemonic impact of neoliberal policy and its adverse articulations of globalization.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianBM2017en_ZA
dc.description.urlhttp://journals.sagepub.com/home/epnen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSihlongonyane, M.F., 2015, 'The rhetorical devices for marketing and branding Johannesburg as a city: a critical review', Environmental Planning A 47, 2134-2152, from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0308518X15599288en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1472-3409
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/23723
dc.journal.titleEnvironmental Planning Aen_ZA
dc.journal.volume47en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_ZA
dc.rightsCopyright 2015 Environmental Planning A is published under SAGE's Green Open Access policy, which allows the author, to re-use his Contribution as follows: he may share the version of the Contribution he submitted to the journal (version 1) anywhere at any time. Once the Contribution has been accepted for publication, he may post the accepted version (version 2) of the Contribution on his own personal website, his department's website or the repository of his institution without any restrictions. He may not post the accepted version (version 2) of the Contribution in any repository other than those listed above (i.e. you may not deposit in the repository of another institution or a subject repository) until 12 months after first publication of the Contribution in the journal.en_ZA
dc.subjectCity brandingen_ZA
dc.subjectGlobal imaginary. African.en_ZA
dc.subjectGlobal Africanization.en_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican modernityen_ZA
dc.subjectBranding. South Africa, Johannesburgen_ZA
dc.titleThe rhetorical devices for marketing and branding Johannesburg as a city: a critical reviewen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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