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Territorialising brand experience and consumption: Negotiating a role for pop-up retailing.
- Source :
- Journal of Consumer Culture; May2021, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p359-380, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The evolving consumption landscape creates challenges for retailers in accommodating their modus operandi to negotiate changing consumer needs, arguably requiring a 'new' type of retailing to hopefully facilitate future success. We suggest that an important aspect of such negotiation will be the use of 'pop-up' activity, and we critically evaluate the potential of these ephemeral consumption spaces to constitute and shape consumers' brand-oriented relations and experiences into the future. Informed by the work of Deleuze and Guattari, we take a territorological perspective. Drawing on data from eight UK-based pop-up cases, we (1) analyse how these temporary 'territories' of brand experience are developed and implemented; (2) analyse what differentiates them from other, traditionally conceived, territories of brand experience; and (3) critically evaluate pop-up's neglected characterisation in terms of a more 'fluid' spatial-temporal retail territory, to better understand its role in contemporary consumer culture. We posit that the development of pop-up activities occurs through the coordination of actions of a variety of stakeholders, constituting a spatial-temporal confluence of both material and processual elements to create a ' refrain ', through the compression and compaction of interior, intermediary, exterior and annexed milieus. In doing so, we offer a new lens through which to view the creation of retail consumption spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONSUMER culture theory
BRAND name products
RETAIL industry
COMPACTING
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14695405
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Consumer Culture
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150635788
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540519889996