1st Edition

Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics Translations, Spaces and Alternatives

Edited By Jason Dittmer, Fiona McConnell Copyright 2016
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

This volume offers an inter-disciplinary and critical analysis of the role of culture in diplomatic practice. If diplomacy is understood as the practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of distinct communities or causes, then questions of culture and the spaces of cultural exchange are at its core. But what of the culture of diplomacy itself? When and how did this culture... Read more

Introduction: Reconceptualising Diplomatic Cultures, Jason Dittmer & Fiona McConnell  Part I: Translating Diplomatic Culture 1. Everyday Diplomacy: Mission, Spectacle and the Remaking of Diplomatic Culture, Costas M. Constantinou 2. Transnational Diplomacy in Europe: What is Transcended and How?, Merje Kuus 3. Performing 'Freedom': The Bandung Conference as Symbolic Post-Colonial Diplomacy, Naoko Shimazu  Part II: Spaces of Diplomatic Culture 4. Sited Diplomacy, Iver Neumann 5. The Traditional Diplomatic Network and its Adaptation to European Integration and New Media, Herman van der Wusten & Virginie Mamadouh 6. Two Balkan Writer-Diplomats: Reimagining International Space in the Eastern Mediterranean, John Watkins  Part III: Alternative Cultures of Diplomacy 7. Para-diplomacy of Cities and Regions: Transnational Relations between Sub-State Political Entities, Virginie Mamadouh & Herman van der Wusten 8. Not Seeing Like a State: Inuit Diplomacies Meet State Sovereignty, Jessica Shadian 9. (Para)Diplomatic Cultures: Old and New, Noé Cornago

Biography

Jason Dittmer is Reader in Human Geography at University College London. He is author/editor of Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity (2010), Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions (2010), Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero (2013) and Geopolitics: An Introductory Reader (Routledge, 2014).

Fiona McConnell is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Geography at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. She is author of Rehearsing the State: The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (forthcoming) and co-editor of Geographies of Peace (2014, with Nick Megoran, Philippa Williams).