Naslov
The Dialectics of Cultural Diplomacy. Example of Dubrovnik Summer Festival.

Autori
Žuvela, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Cultural Diplomacy. Arts, Festivals and Geopolitics.

Urednik/ci
Dragičević Šešić, Milena ; Mijatović Rogač, Ljiljana ; Mihaljinac, Nina

Izdavač
Desk Kreativna Evropa Srbija ; Ministarstvo kulture i medija Republike Srbije

Grad
Beograd

Godina
2017

Raspon stranica
173-185

ISBN
978-86-85033-34-6

Ključne riječi
cultural diplomacy, representation, national festivals

Sažetak
This paper aims to address the concept of cultural diplomacy by questioning its motives, forms, dynamics and manifestation with underlining dubiety to what and how cultural diplomacy communicates, what, why and whom it represents. Being an essentially elite concept, from a political, cultural and economic perspective, cultural diplomacy is controversial in relation to the contemporary developments and aims for more equitable cultural policies, practices and politics of cultural discourse. In that sense, the concept of cultural diplomacy needs wider legitimisation and continual revisions. Focusing on the example of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, a a national institution with a tradition of 67 years, the paper tracks the genesis of role of this institution throughout the developmental phases of cultural policy, not only in providing an institutional raison d’etre but also the rationale for engaging in cultural diplomacy in both explicit and implicit manners. Hence, the example stretches into the times of socialist rule in Yugoslavia and the intensive global situation of bipolar divisions and tensions, when cultural diplomacy wasn’t affirmed or articulated as a policy concept or operating syntagm, yet was a generally accepted and utilised mode of political action and cultural planning. Along the historiographic trajectory of Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the paper illustrates the overspill effects of “cultural diplomacy” project from the institutional to the wider local setting and detects fluctuating, yet constant levels of political and economic instrumentalism employed in exercising cultural diplomacy. Finally, based on the findings from the analysis of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival example, the paper proposes that a discussion on cultural diplomacy is not a discussion of new concepts and constructs as much as it is a discussion on new idioms and frameworks.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Sociologija

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