1st Edition

Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?

Edited By Ien Ang, Yudhishthir Isar, Phillip Mar Copyright 2016
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Cultural diplomacy: beyond the national interest? Ien Ang, Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Phillip Mar

2. The disjunction of image and word in US and Chinese soft power projection Robert Albro

3. Slow boat from China: public discourses behind the ‘going global’ media policy Wanning Sun

4. Pop-culture diplomacy in Japan: soft power, nation branding and the question of ‘international cultural exchange’ Koichi Iwabuchi

5. Contemporary cultural diplomacy in South Korea: explicit and implicit approaches Hyungseok Kang

6. Australia’s Colombo Plans, old and new: international students as foreign relations David Lowe

7. The case of Asialink’s arts residency program: towards a critical cosmopolitan approach to cultural diplomacy Bettina Rösler

8. Living with instrumentalism: the academic commitment to cultural diplomacy David Carter

9. ‘Culture in EU external relations’: an idea whose time has come? Yudhishthir Raj Isar

Biography

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.