Exporting national culture: histories of Cultural Institutes abroad

Paschalidis, Gregory

doi:10.1080/10286630902811148

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“…The modern practice of promoting culture, language, and education across borders developed in continental Europe during the 1870s. It was typically conducted by nonstate actors such as “volunteers, societies, churches, clubs and associations.” These activities were aimed at the overseas cultural nation (i.e., ethnic diasporas) in colonies or territories adjacent to the homeland, or toward “contested spheres of influence” where cultural, linguistic, or economic hegemony was the subject of colonialist competition (Paschalidis, , pp. 277–279).…”

Section: Origins Of the Fields: Culture Nationalism And Internationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Influence, Ontological Transformation, and Social Change: Conceptual Overlaps BetweenDevelopment CommunicationandPublic Diplomacy

Pamment

2015

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Development Communication and Public Diplomacy are twin products of U.S. political science and Cold War foreign policy. As contemporary diplomatic and development policies continue to converge, new ways of interpreting the relationship between the fields are necessary. This article analyses the 2 fields' emergence out of modernization policy and their reliance on a common conception of process: namely, that information propagated through media channels alters how foreign citizens know the world around them, and that this transformation can lead to positive social change. More recent paradigmatic shifts toward participatory communication models demonstrate that both fields have moved toward inclusive conceptualizations of influence and social change, but key differences suggest that they still have much to learn from each other.

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Section: Origins Of the Fields: Culture Nationalism And Internationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Influence, Ontological Transformation, and Social Change: Conceptual Overlaps BetweenDevelopment CommunicationandPublic Diplomacy

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2015

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“…Rather, the meaning of cultural diplomacy varies depending on the context. Therefore, this study firstly attempted to draw a historical outline on the basis of Paschalidis's (2009) four phases of cultural diplomacy: first, cultural nationalism (1870-1914); second, cultural propaganda (1914-1945); third, cultural diplomacy (1945-1989); and finally, cultural capitalism (1989-present).…”

Section: How To Define Cultural Diplomacy?mentioning

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Bridging the Theoretical Gap between Public Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy

Kim¹

2017

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As public diplomacy has undergone a paradigm shift in the information age, cultural diplomacy remains loosely defined as a strand of public diplomacy, yet there has been little explanation as to why this was so. Rather, cultural diplomacy has been underestimated in recent diplomatic activities. The combination of new public diplomacy and soft power has become the formula for how international cultural exchanges and programs work in contemporary diplomatic activities and has brought a new perspective on arts and culture as a means of soft power. The present study aims to uncover the missing pieces in cultural diplomacy as a subset of new public diplomacy and delves into what complicates the definition of cultural diplomacy. The study concludes that new cultural diplomacy should be considered as an intersectional concept of new public diplomacy and international cultural relations.

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“…As mentioned earlier, however, the processes these terms entail have rarely been critically examined. Their emergence as tools of national self-promotion or what Raymond Williams (1984) once called the 'cultural policy of display' has been insufficiently unpacked (Paschalidis 2009). Nor has there been much analysis of their place in discourses of cultural nationalism, which is arguably a key dimension of cultural diplomacy as a governmental practice (Isar's paper in this volume uses Bhabha's (1990) distinction between 'pedagogical' and 'performative' dimensions of nationalist cultural display to address this issue).…”

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Cultural diplomacy: beyond the national interest?

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Isar

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2015

International Journal of Cultural Policy

172

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The field of cultural diplomacy, which looms large in present-day cultural policy and discourse, has been insufficiently analysed by the cultural disciplines. This special issue engages with the task of filling the gap. The present essay sets out the terms in which the authors have taken up this engagement, focusing principally on Australia and Asia. Distinguishing between cultural diplomacy that is essentially interest-driven governmental practice and cultural relations, which is ideals-driven and practiced largely by non-state actors, the authors pursue a twofold aim. First, to demystify the field, especially when it is yoked to the notion of 'soft power'; second, to better understand how actually-existing discourses of cultural diplomacy and/or cultural relations operate in different national contexts. The essay seeks in particular to scrutinize the current confusion surrounding cultural diplomacy and, in the context of the changing role of the nation-state, to explore its possibilities as an instrument for going beyond the national interest.

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Exporting national culture: histories of Cultural Institutes abroad

Cited by 70 publications

References 16 publications

Media Influence, Ontological Transformation, and Social Change: Conceptual Overlaps BetweenDevelopment CommunicationandPublic Diplomacy

Media Influence, Ontological Transformation, and Social Change: Conceptual Overlaps BetweenDevelopment CommunicationandPublic Diplomacy

Bridging the Theoretical Gap between Public Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy

Cultural diplomacy: beyond the national interest?

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