Geocultural diplomacy

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ID12340604
AuthorsT Winter (0000-0002-5825-6012, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume28
Issue4
Pages385-399
Publication date2021-09-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1028-6632 • E-ISSN: 1477-2833
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10286632.2021.1967943
OpenAlexW4200291595
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited33

New modes of analysis are required to account for current developments in international cultural politics. To that end, this paper introduces the concept of geocultural diplomacy. It seeks to move beyond current debates about cultural diplomacy, which foreground the nation-state and suffer from narrowly conceived definitions of culture. The concept of the geocultural is offered to explore new developments in world affairs that demand more critical attention.The paper focuses on the example of the Silk Road, which, through its Belt and Road Initiative, China now proclaims to be ‘reviving’ for the twenty-first century. Three themes – narrative, materiality, values – critically consider how geocultural forms can emerge and stabilize as contexts across which complex, multi-actor diplomatic and cooperative structures form. Through this lens, we begin to see China’s desire to build regional alliances combines internationalist values of peace, harmony and openness with strategic national interests

Aesthetics · China · Diplomacy · Harmony (color · Materiality (auditing · Narrative · Openness to experience · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Globalization and Cultural Identity · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law

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