1st Edition
Nation-branding in Practice The Politics of Promoting Sports, Cities and Universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar
Introduction
Part I: A practice approach to nation-branding
Chapter 1 – Conceptualising nation-branding as practice
Chapter 2: Analysing nation-branding in practice
Chapter 3 – Situating nation-branding in practice
Part II: The promotion of sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar
Chapter 4 - Building the sports-brand: Team Astana and the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Chapter 5 - Building the city-brand: Extravagant urban development in Astana and Doha
Chapter 6 - Building the knowledge-brand: ‘world-class’ education at Nazarbayev University and Education City
Part III: Nation-branding in practice
Chapter 7 - Nation-branding as conservative politics
Conclusion: Brand new world?
Biography
Kristin Anabel Eggeling is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests are in practice theory, identity politics, nation-branding, diplomacy, interpretive methods and methodologies, and fieldwork in International Relations. Kristin holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht, a MLitt and a PhD from the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and has previously worked in the private and policy sector in Doha and Brussels. For her research on nation-branding, Kristin has been a visiting researcher at Nazarbayev University and Qatar University.
"Eggeling provides an excellent, lucid and probing analysis of the connections between nation branding, state identity and regime security in soft authoritarian regimes. Yet, it is a book with much broader resonance, and will appeal to anyone interested in the constitutive politics of nation branding and the remaking of national identities in the contemporary world." - Christopher Browning, University of Warwick, UK.
"An empirically rich and methodologically rigorous account of the practices of state-branding, Eggeling’s work constitutes a strong and refreshing contribution to the literature of nation-branding. Eggeling develops a very fine reconceptualization thereof as a political practice linked to the politics of state identity and how relevant contemporary practices unfold and travel across different regional contexts. The book persuasively invites us to ‘take branding seriously’, because by doing so we gain valuable insights in processes of regime legitimation." - Matteo Fumagalli, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews, UK.
