Origination: the geographies of brands and branding / Andy Pike -- The state branding of U.S. postage stamps for state commemorative years : from heritage, iconography and place to placelessness / Stanley D. Brunn -- Ghostly cities : some notes on urban branding and the imagining of places / Alberto Vanolo -- Becoming Eataly : the magic of the mall & the magic of the brand / Annalisa Colombino -- The on-screen branding and rebranding of identity politics in Cyprus / Costas Constandinides -- Tango argentino as a nation brand / Rita Rieger -- Tourism, nation-branding and the commercial hegemony of nation-building in the post-Yugoslav states / Florian Bieber -- Promoting the nation in Austria and Switzerland : a pre-history of nation branding / Oliver Kühschelm.