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Tue Sep 14 23:02:17 GMT 2021





Call for Papers

Postcolonial Marketing Communication: Images from the Global South

Knowledge Partner: Springer Nature

Editors: Arindam Das (Alliance School of Business, Alliance University, Bangalore, India); Himadri Roy Chaudhuri (XLRI-Xavier School of Mangement, Jamshedpur, India) Ozlem Sandikci Turkdogan (University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School, Scotland, UK)

The Editors invite extended chapter proposals of approximately 350 words for an edited book focusing on postcolonial marketing communication. This volume aims to generate an exchange of ideas and insights between academics and professionals on the role of postcolonialty within the ambits of marketing, consumer literature, and communication. We welcome chapter proposals on any aspect of this theme.

Concept Note

The system of hegemonic domination and overpowering influence over the ‘less developed’ countries/cultures exercised through a set of ideological measures and economic instruments by the more powerful countries (relatively from the Global North) continues till this very day. Sartre (1964) noted this trend as the European imperial powers continued to ideologically dominate most of their former colonies. Subsequent theorizations by Said, Fanon, Bhabha, Spivak et al. have thrown significant light on the phenomenon. However, it is not only the reactionary responses to the European imperialism or colonialism that comprise of the discursive postcolonial terrain, but even the responses to the recent neocolonial-capitalist-global power prerogatives that expand the scope of postcolonialism (Loomba, 2015).

The postcolonial condition (along with its trajectories of hybridity, ambivalence, mimicry, diaspora, deterritorialization, third space, orientalism, subalternity, or even the anticolonial resistances, and decolonial transformations) remains a dominant reality even today in the context of the larger global politico-economic paradigm. The attempts of transcending the aftermaths of colonialism and neocolonialism and its coercive or ideologically regulating processes by the colonized/subaltern/marginalized subjects are not to be missed. The normalization of socio-cultural-epistemic violence has always been met with the postcolonial “transformative reflexes” (McLeod, 2007, 5) that resist, challenge, negotiate or narrate the imperial/neocolonial hegemony. Even attempts towards decolonization, in the form of a “movement for moral justice and political solidarity against imperialism” (Duara, 2004, 2) or the anti-colonial counterculture of resistance (Gopal, 2019), are but postcolonial reactionary politics of insurgencies to imperialism. The more recent attempts at “preventing the financial powers of the developed countries being used in a way to impoverish the less developed ones” (Nkrumah, 1965, 30) is an anti-imperial agenda that owes to the intransigent discourses and unanswerability of the resistive subjects of the postcolonial condition.

Such post/anti/decolonial reactions are no less to be traced in the way the marketing tacts of the global south (the concept of the market in itself being a mimetic adoption of the colonial/imperial/global world order) communicate to its consumers. The site of marketing communication in the Global South witnesses the Western tropes of marketing communication being re-produced and re-presented through a mimetic subversion that is achieved through the deployment of eclectic tools in the media. Thus, it is a truism to find how the Global South has adopted a marketing communication system, in its theorization and practice, that reflects Western motifs, icons, and narratives (Varman and Saha 2009), but this time mediated through the modernity of their own (Chatterjee, 1997). The cultural practices of the marketing communication of the Global South have been successfully able to devalorize the ‘innocent’ episteme of the West. The responsible-responsive politics of the marketing communication of the Global South problematizes the configurations of western images of the colonized subjects. The de-universalization of the Western episteme as propounded in the marketing communication of the (neo)colonizer is made possible through a nativist turn. Moving beyond the benign ahistoricity of the Western marketing communications, the marketing communication discourses from the vantage of postcolonial realities highlight the experiences of inequities and deep divide. However, it would be wrong to seek a coeval pan-image of reaction in the marketing creativities from the Global South to the varied forces of imperialism. When historically situated, the resentment of the margin in the cultural space of marketing communication ventilates the “local-native-indigenous reality” that “has been touched by the morphology of modernism and the dominance of nationalism and the nation-state” (Radhakrishnan, 2000, 37). Hence, beyond the slogans of all-pervasive, sweeping globalization, the marcom from the margin unleashes discursivity by narrating the hegemonic ideologues of culture, economy, politics, and privilege. This collection intends to be one of its kind in creating the space for voices of critical marcom about the Global South. We invite incisive articles that help to catapult the discourse of marcom beyond the one-world global, stable, conventional narrative and consciously complicate cultural interconnectivities using the lens of postcolonial scholarship. Although, the lens of postcolonialism and marketing discourses have been effectively used (viz. Kjeldgaard and Askegaard, 2006; Varman and Saha, 2009; Üstüner and Holt, 2010; Sandikci and Ger, 2011; Varman and Belk, 2012; Cova et al., 2013; Varman and Sreekumar, 2015; Tadajewski, et al., 2018; Koegler, 2018), and there has been some dispersed meditation in the field of marketing images and postcolonialism (Varman, Cyla, and Sreekumar, 2011; Wulan, 2017; Ghandeharion and Morteza, 2017; Ghandeharion, 2018; Ghandeharion, 2019), yet our critical anthology intends to be the first to open a substantial dialogue in “postcolonial marketing communication”. However, there had been some noteworthy work on tourism images/advertisement of the Global South from the postcolonial lens (Britton, 1979; Weightman , 1987; Echtner and Prasad, 2003; Hall and Tucker, 2004; Hasseler, 2008; Wikes, 2016; Atayi, 2020) that critique the privileged Western gaze, yet this is too focused an area to contribute to the holistic thesis of postcolonial marketing communication.

The Present edited volume seeks empirical and conceptual work on such topics to better understand and analyze the phenomenon of postcolonial marketing communication, how it is experienced, and its impact on Global South will be given preference. For empirical papers, all methods will be considered. The editors welcome submissions from academics and researchers in the field of Cultural Studies, Critical Communication, Marketing, Consumer Research, and Macromarketing. Please consult the suggestive list (indicative not exhaustive) of topics below:

1. Marketing communication and the Imperial History/Genealogy/Archaeology

2.     Marketing Communication and the Narratives of Nationalism

3.     Marketing Communication and the Subaltern Cultural Politics

4.     Marketing Communication and Ethnonationalism

5.     Aboriginal/Fourth World Marketing Communication

6.     Can the Subaltern Speak through Marketing Communication?

7.     Marketing Communication and its Fragments

8.     Provincializing Marketing Communication

9.     Dalit Marketing Communication

10.  Diasporic Marketing Communication

11.  Marketing Communication and Postcolonial Displacements

12.  Borders, Nation-State and Marketing Communication

13.  Marketing Communication and the Black Identity

14.  Marketing Communication and Nativism

15.  Marketing Communication and Issues of Postcolonial Gender Identity

16.  Marketing Communication and Digital Postcolonialism

17.  Marketing Communication and Decolonization

18.  Marketing Communication and Anti-colonialism

19.   Marketing Communication, Disparities, and Capitalism/Globalization

20.  Marketing Communication and Whiteness Studies


Email IDs for submission of Abstracts (350 words)

Arindam Das: (arindam.das /at/ alliance.edu.in)

Himadri Roy Chaudhuri: (himadri /at/ xlri.ac.in)

Ozlem Sandikci Turkdogan: (Ozlem.SandikciTurkdogan /at/ glasgow.ac.uk)


Key Date

Last date of submission of Abstracts: 20 October 2021

Decision on Abstract: 10 November 2021

Last date for full Paper submission: 15 February 2022


Works cited:

Atayi, H. (2020). “Unlocking the garden of Eden: a postcolonial reading of tourists’ and locals’ image of Seychelles.” Diss. Leicester: University of Leicester. file:///C:/Users/arindam.das/Downloads/2020AtayiHPhD.pdf. Britton, Robert A. (1979). “The image of the Third World in tourism marketing.” Annals of Tourism Research. 6(3): 318–329.

Chatterjee, Partha. (1997). Our Modernity. Rotterdam/Dakar: SEPHIS CODESRIA. https://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/partha1.pdf.

Cova, Bernard., Maclaran, Pauline., and Bradshaw, Alan. (2013). ‘‘Rethinking consumer culture theory from the postmodern to the communist horizon.’’ Marketing Theory. 13 (2): 213-25.

Duara, Prasenjit. (2004). “Introduction: the decolonization of Asia and Africa in the twentieth century.” Decolonization: Perspectives from then and Now. Ed. Prasenjit Duara. London and New York: London.

Echtner, C.M. and Prasad, P. (2003). “The context of third world tourism marketing.” Annals of Tourism Research. 30(3): 660-82.

Ghandeharion, Azra., and Yazdanjoo, Morteza. (2017). “Governmental discourses in advertising on Iran’s state television.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 19(3): 2–9.

Ghandeharion, Arza. (2018). “Iranian advertisements: a postcolonial semiotic reading.” Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences. 39(2): 334-42.

Ghandeharion, Arza. (2019). “How detergent advertisements can bleach national identity: postcolonial content analysis of Iranian TV advertisements.” Cogent Arts and Humanities. 6(1): 1-17. doi.10.1080/23311983.2019.1626204.

Gopal, Priyamvada. Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent. London and New York: London.

Hall, M.C. and Tucker, H. (2004). Tourism and Postcolonialism: Contested Discourses, Identities and Representations. Eds. London: Routledge.

Hasseler, T. A. (2008). “The promise of tourism: colonial imagery in advertising.” The Radical Teacher. 82: 19-24.

Kjeldgaard, Dannie., and Askegaard, Søren. (2006). “The glocalization of youth culture: the global Youth segment as structures of common difference.” Journal of Consumer Research. 33(2): 231-47.

Koegler, Caroline. (2018). Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market. London and New York: Routledge.

Loomba, Ania. (2015). Colonialism/Postcolonialism. 3rd end. London and New York: Routledge.

McLeod. John. (2007). “Introduction.” The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Ed. John McLeod. London and New York: Routledge. 1-18. Nkrumah, Kwame. (1965). Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. London: Nelson Books.

Radhakrishnan, R. (2000). “Postmodern and the rest of the world.” The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies. Eds. Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks. Duke University Press: London and Durham. 37-70.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. (1964). Colonialism and Neocolonialism, translated by Steve Brewer, Azzedine Haddour, Terry McWilliams; Paris: Routledge.

Sandikci, Ozlem., and Ger, Güliz. (2011). “Islam, consumption and marketing: going beyond the essentialist approach.” Handbook of Islamic Marketing. Eds. Özlem Sandıkcı and Gillian Rice. Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar. 484-502.

Tadajewski, Mark., Higgins, Matthew., Denegri-Knott, Janice., and Varman, Rohit. (2018). Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing. London: Routledge.

Üstüner, Tuba., and Holt, Douglas B. (2010). “Toward a theory of status consumption in less industrialized countries.” Journal of Consumer Research. 37 (1): 37–56.

Varman, Rohit., and Saha, Biswatosh. (2009). “Disciplining the discipline: understanding postcolonial epistemic ideology in marketing.” Journal of Marketing Management. 25(7/8): 811–824.

Varman, Rohit., Cayla, Julien., and Sreekumar, Hari. (2011). “Mimicry and postcolonial advertising.” E-European Advances in Consumer Research. Vol. 9. Eds. Alan Bradshaw, Chris Hackley, and Pauline Maclaran. Duluth, MN: Association for Consumer Research. 544.

Varman, Rohit., and Belk, Russell W. (2012). “Consuming postcolonial shopping malls.” Journal of Marketing Management. 28(1-2): 62-84.

Varman, Rohit., and Sreekumar, Hari. (2015). “Locating the past in its silence: history and marketing theory in India.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. 7(2): 272-279.

Weightman, B. A. (1987). “Third world tour landscapes.” Annals of Tourism Research. 14(2): 227–239.

Wikes, K. (2016) “Resurrecting colonialism: tourism in Jamaica during the nineteenth century and beyond.” In Whiteness, Weddings and Tourism in the Caribbean. Birmingham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wulan, Roro Retno. (2017). “The myth of white skin: a postcolonial review of cosmetic ads in Indonesia.” International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16). doi:10.1051/shsconf/20173300048.

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