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.

国家经常开展“文化外交”，以改善其在外国人口中的形象，促进其外交政策目标。这可能涉及到在国外推广文化产品，如文学、艺术、电影、戏剧等，各国历来愿意为这类活动投入大量资金。此外，在最近一段时期，为了进一步实现外交政策目标（如伊拉克和阿富汗），许多政府更愿意诉诸军事干预，现在他们正在重新考虑如何在不诉诸军事手段的情况下影响其他国家。国际关系专家谈到了文化交流，即对其他国家和人民施加“软实力”。然而，这种研究没有充分考虑到作为文化外交一部分推广的文化产品如何在国外得到接受，以及外国受众如何接触这些产品。本项目旨在开发新的方法来理解这一过程。它试图通过将文化研究专家与国际关系研究人员聚集在一起来发展这些方法。文化研究长期以来一直对接受问题以及观众与他们遇到的文化产品的互动感兴趣。从这个意义上说，国际关系学可以借鉴文化研究的理论，将文化研究的理论运用到文化外交的研究中去。同样，文化研究的研究者们也发现，在文化外交领域，要想解决对政策制定者来说至关重要的问题，并不容易。通过促进国际关系和文化研究的研究者之间的互动，这两个学科对政策制定者在这一领域的价值将得到提升。该项目还将为未来研究的发展提供理论基础，该研究将侧重于文化研究的见解在文化外交领域的实际应用。

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