Places in diplomacy

Shimazu, Naoko

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.03.005

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“…It rather moves beyond territoriality to bring different subjects, spaces, and terrains of struggle into the analysis. The underlying effort is to situate and contextualize diplomatic practice more closely in the social spaces in which it operates (Jeffrey, 2012;Kuus, 2014a;McConnell et al, 2012;Neumann, 2013;Shimazu, 2012). To grasp the messiness of practice -what happens rather than what is supposed to happen -we must open up our understanding of where it happens.…”

Section: Locating Diplomatic Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Symbolic power in diplomatic practice: Matters of style in Brussels

Kuus¹

2015

Cooperation and Conflict

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This paper investigates the workings of symbolic power in diplomatic practice. At the level of empirical observation, it focuses on the intangible and incalculable ‘feel for the game’ that distinguishes a well-informed and relaxed insider from an ill-informed and ill-at-ease outsider in European Union (EU) diplomatic circles in Brussels. By highlighting the play of social resources, such as reputation, presence, poise, and composure in these circles, I examine EU diplomacy from an angle – symbolic power – that is often overlooked in the existing work on that field. Conceptually, the analysis focuses on the role of informal social resources rather than formal institutional structures in diplomatic practice. It also outlines the potential synergies between the study of diplomacy in international relations (IR) on the one hand and geography, anthropology, and sociology on the other. The paper thereby advances the analytical toolbox of diplomatic studies and practice theory. Such conceptual sharpening is needed, especially now that diplomacy is becoming more transnational and less linked to the foreign ministries of states.

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Section: Locating Diplomatic Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Symbolic power in diplomatic practice: Matters of style in Brussels

Kuus¹

2015

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…The recognition of the importance of such atmospherics to political meetings has not come easily, although an increasingly diverse body of research into political events is opening up the study of conferences as multisensory spaces of engagement. These have addressed the role of commemorations and domestic interiors to diplomatic congresses (Vick 2014), the role of places and bodies in diplomacy (Neumann 2008(Neumann , 2013, and the theatrics of postcolonial sovereignty at the Bandung Conference of 1955 (Shimazu 2012(Shimazu , 2014as Lee [2010] put it, "Although a certain diplomatic complexity undergirded the meeting, the public atmosphere achieved at the conference evinced this sensibility of a new era in global history" [12]).…”

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“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932

Legg

2019

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…As has been shown for the case of multilateralism in the United Nations system more generally, practices and material arrangements are never neutral, but are entangled with politics (Bueger ; Pouliot ; Weisser ). A Rancièrian take on climate summitry provides the theoretical equipment for analysing the role of the “local milieu of diplomacy” (Shimazu :335) and its constituting practices and material arrangements for climate politics. The following sections present three distinct but interrelated sites that existed at COP21, with each of them fulfilling a particular function in rendering the conference post‐democratic.…”

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No Place for the Political: Micro‐Geographies of the Paris Climate Conference 2015

Weisser

Müller‐Mahn

2016

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Building upon post-foundational political philosophies, this article scrutinizes the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015 from a micro-geographical perspective. The analysis suggests that three different spaces exist at the site of the summit and reveals how their constituting practices and material arrangements rendered "Paris" post-democratic. We begin with exposing the staged statements of the world's political elites in the meticulously orchestrated Leaders Event as different phenotypes of the post-democratic condition. We then investigate the formal negotiations in the cordoned-off backrooms, where positions within the system were at stake, but not the system as such. Finally, we wander through the strictly policed "trade fair" and unveil attempts to entice delegates into techno-managerial solutions to the climate crisis. In the conclusion, we ponder over the prospects of environmental activism at the COPs in the light of their massive depoliticization.

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Places in diplomacy

Cited by 23 publications

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Symbolic power in diplomatic practice: Matters of style in Brussels

Symbolic power in diplomatic practice: Matters of style in Brussels

“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932

No Place for the Political: Micro‐Geographies of the Paris Climate Conference 2015

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