Consumer Nationalism and Barr’s Irn-Bru in Scotland

by David Leishman

This book connects a detailed analysis of Irn-Bru’s brand identity over time to theories of national identity, consumer studies, and banal nationalism. It situates the commercial history of Barr’s Irn-Bru in a transnational context and shows how Irn-Bru has become a symbol of Scotland through processes of rewriting, reframing and institutionalized forgetting, linking the consumption of what began as a trans-national generic product to a specific national community. As such, Leishman presents a l

Genres: Non-Fiction

ISBN: 9783030533823

274 pages

Published: 2020-10-01

Publisher: Springer Nature

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