Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?

ISBN-13: 9781138392526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 120 str.

Ien Ang; Yudhishthir Raj Isar; Phillip Mar

Opis

Bringing together scholarship from the perspective of the cultural disciplines, this book locates contemporary cultural diplomacy practices within their social, political, and ideological contexts, while examining the different forces that drive them. The contributions to this book have two methodologies: to deconstruct and demystify cultural diplomacy, notably the ‘hype’ that accompanies it, especially when it is yoked to the notion of ‘soft power’; and to better understand how contemporary cultural diplomacy actually operates. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

Spis treści

1. Cultural diplomacy: beyond the national interest?  2. The disjunction of image and word in US and Chinese soft power projection  3. Slow boat from China: public discourses behind the ‘going global’ media policy  4. Pop-culture diplomacy in Japan: soft power, nation branding and the question of ‘international cultural exchange’  5. Contemporary cultural diplomacy in South Korea: explicit and implicit approaches  6. Australia’s Colombo Plans, old and new: international students as foreign relations  7. The case of Asialink’s arts residency program: towards a critical cosmopolitan approach to cultural diplomacy  8. Living with instrumentalism: the academic commitment to cultural diplomacy  9. ‘Culture in EU external relations’: an idea whose time has come?