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Asian Brands and the Shaping of a Transnational Imagined Community
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We investigate how brand managers create regional Asian brands and show how some of them are attempting to forge new webs of interconnectedness through the construction of a transnational, imagined Asian world. Some branding managers are creating regional brands that emphasize the common experience of globalization, evoke a generic, hyper-urban, and multicultural experience, and are infused with diverse cultural referents. These types of regional Asian brands contribute to the creation of an imagined Asia as urban, modern, and multicultural. Understanding this process helps one to appreciate the role of branding managers in constructing markets and places.
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“By connecting their diverse ethnic backgrounds and lived experiences of racial discrimination with regional forms of identification (Cayla and Eckhardt 2008), consumers like Ruby, Jerry, and Nadia seem to be broadening the boundaries of cultural insiderhood beyond the level of the nation, while at the same time reinscribing a racialized boundary that demarcates Caucasian fans as visible outsiders”
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“Adopted by those like Nasrine, a connected cosmopolitan participant of global youth culture (Kjeldgaard and Askegaard 2006), or Ruby and Nadia who claim a shared regional Asian consciousness (Cayla and Eckhardt 2008), rationalizing enables consumers to address the tension between the ethnic and responsibilized consumer subject by constructing themselves as insiders of a shared transnational”
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“Here, the subject position of the connected cosmopolitan manifests via a shared regional consciousness (Cayla and Eckhardt 2008), with some international K-pop fans claiming a shared Asian identity that positions them in closer proximity to Korean culture.”
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“First, prior research described how ideologies such as neoliberal multiculturalism push forward a depoliticized approach to consuming cultural difference, especially at the level of the individual consumer (Cayla and Eckhardt 2008; Thompson and Tambyah 1999; Veresiu and Giesler 2018).”
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“Cultural context, long central to global marketing (Cayla & Eckhardt, 2008), does not disappear.It becomes embedded in training data, regulatory regimes, and domestic AI stacks, as recent work demonstrates in generative AI's culturally patterned outputs (Lu et al., 2025).”
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- Authors
- Cayla, J., & Eckhardt, G. M.
- Affiliations
- Suffolk University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Consumer Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-08
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 216-230
- ISSN
- 0093-5301 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5277
- OpenAlex
- W2113596218
- Cited by
- 276
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 23
- FWCI
- 35.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Consumer Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Keywords
- regional branding, globalization, multiculturalism, urbanization, cultural references
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