Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?
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 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 a Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Yudhishthir Raj Isar is Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at the American University of Paris, France and an Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Phillip Mar is a Research Associate in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?
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Ien Ang, Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Phillip Mar
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Contents
Ien Ang, Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Phillip Mar
Robert Albro
Wanning Sun
Koichi Iwabuchi
Hyungseok Kang
David Lowe
Bettina Rsler
David Carter
Yudhishthir Raj Isar
The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Ien Ang, Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Phillip Mar
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 365381
Robert Albro
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 382399
Wanning Sun
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 400418
Koichi Iwabuchi
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 419432
Hyungseok Kang
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 433447
David Lowe
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 448462
Bettina Rsler
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 463477
David Carter
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 478493
Yudhishthir Raj Isar
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 21, issue 4 (September 2015) pp. 494508
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Robert Albro is an Associate Professor in the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University, Washington, DC, USA. He has maintained a longterm ethnographic focus on urban and indigenous politics in Bolivia, and is an expert on Latin American social and indigenous movements. He is the co-editor of Anthropologists in the Security Scape (Left Coast Press, 2011), with Marcus, McNamara and Schoch-Spana.
Ien Ang is a Professor of Cultural Studies, and was the founding Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is one of the leaders in cultural studies worldwide, with interdisciplinary work spanning many areas of the humanities and social sciences. She is the author of On Not Speaking Chinese (Routledge, 2001) and Desperately Seeking the Audience (Routledge, 1991), and the co-editor of The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation (UWS Press, 2011), with Lally and Anderson.
David Carter is a Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His current research projects include history of middlebrow book culture in Australia and a study on American editions of Australian books. His work has appeared in the Journal of Australian Studies, Pacific and American Studies, History Australia, Australian Literary Studies and International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Yudhishthir Raj Isar is a Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at The American University of Paris, France. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. His work straddles different worlds of cultural theory, experience and practice. His research, writing and public speaking take up key issues of cultural policy across the world. He is the founding co-editor of the five volumes of the Cultures and Globalization Series (Sage).
Koichi Iwabuchi is a Professor in the Monash Asia Institute at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He specialises in the fields of media and cultural studies, and is interested in promoting researches on trans-Asian connections and dialogues in a global perspective, and rethinking various concepts/theories that have been developed from Euro-American experiences.
Hyungseok Kang is a graduate student in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at Kings College London, UK. His academic and professional interests are in the cultural and creative sectors, and its evolving application in the fields of socioeconomic development in trans-local and international contexts.