Developing a New Framework for Understanding the Role of Cultural Products in Cultural Diplomacy

制定理解文化产品在文化外交中的作用的新框架

• 批准号: AH/J012564/1
• 负责人: David Clarke
• 金额: $ 3.01万
• 依托单位: University of Bath
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ012564%2F1
• 关键词: Developing; New; Framework; Understanding; Role

States often undertake 'cultural diplomacy' to improve their image with foreign populations and further their foreign policy aims. This can involve the promotion of cultural products abroad, such as literature, art, film, theatre and so on. States have traditionally been willing to invest considerable sums of money in such activity. Furthermore, following a recent period of greater willingness to resort to military intervention in order to further foreign policy aims (e.g. Iraq and Afghanistan), many governments are now considering again how they might influence other countries without resorting to military means.International Relations experts have talked about cultural exchange in terms of exerting 'soft power' over other countries and their populations. However, such research has not adequately taken into account how cultural products promoted as part of cultural diplomacy are received abroad and how foreign audiences engage with those products. This project aims to developin new methodologies for understanding this process. It seeks to develop those methodologies by bringing together specialists in Cultural Studies with researchers in International Relations. Cultural Studies has long been interested in questions of reception and the interaction of audiences with the cultural products they encounter. In this sense, International Relations can learn from Cultural Studies by applying Cultural Studies theories to its study of cultural diplomacy. Equally, however, Cultural Studies researchers have not traditionally found it easy to adapt their approaches to address questions of importance to policymakers in the field of cultural diplomacy.By facilitating an interaction between researchers from International Relations and Cultural Studies, the value of both disciplines to policymakers in this area will be enhanced. The project will also provide the theoretical underpinning for the development of future research, which will focus on the practical application of insights from Cultural Studies in the field of cultural diplomacy.

各州经常承担“文化外交”，以通过外国人口改善其形象，并进一步进一步的外交政策目标。这可能涉及在国外促进文化产品，例如文学，艺术，电影，戏剧等。传统上，各州愿意在此类活动中投资大量资金。此外，在最近有更大愿意诉诸军事干预的时期之后，为了进一步的外交政策目标（例如伊拉克和阿富汗），许多政府现在正在考虑如何在不诉诸军事手段的情况下如何影响其他国家。国际关系专家在付出“软权力跨越其他国家”和其他国家的文化交流。但是，此类研究尚未充分考虑到在国外接受文化外交的一部分以及外国观众如何与这些产品互动的文化产品。该项目旨在开发用于理解这一过程的新方法。它试图通过将文化研究专家与国际关系研究人员联系在一起，以开发这些方法。长期以来，文化研究一直对接收问题以及受众与他们遇到的文化产品的相互作用感兴趣。从这个意义上讲，国际关系可以通过将文化研究理论应用于其文化外交研究来从文化研究中学习。然而，同样，文化研究人员传统上并没有发现他们的方法很容易解决文化外交领域对决策者的重要性问题。通过促进国际关系与文化研究的研究人员之间的相互作用，这两个学科对这一领域的政策制定者的价值将得到增强。该项目还将为未来研究的发展提供理论的基础，该研究将重点介绍文化外交领域文化研究的实践应用。

项目成果

Theorising the role of cultural products in cultural diplomacy from a Cultural Studies perspective

从文化研究的角度理论化文化产品在文化外交中的作用

• DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2014.958481
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: International Journal of Cultural Policy
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Clarke D