Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?
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- ISBN 9781138392526
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest? is the first book bringing together, from the perspective of the cultural disciplines, scholarship that 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: the first, to deconstruct and demystify cultural diplomacy, notably the ‘hype’ that accompanies it, especially when it is yoked to the notion of ‘soft power’; the second, to better understand how contemporary cultural diplomacy actually operates. In applying a cultural lens to the question, this book probes whether there can be such a thing as a cultural diplomacy ‘beyond the national interest’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Ien Ang is Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Yudhishthir Raj Isar is Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia, and Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at the American University of Paris, France.
Phillip Mar is a Research Associate in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia.
