PUBLIC POLICY ANTHROPOLOGIST

ROBERT ALBRO

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Troping the Enemy: Culture, Metaphor Programs, and Notional Publics of National Security

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) – established in 2006 in the spirit of the Pentagon’s DARPA to sponsor research for groundbreaking technologies to support an “overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries” – is a little-known US agency that social and behavioral scientists (especially sociocultural anthropologists) should pay more attention to. This is because […]

Posted in Applied cultural research, Computational social science, Culture and the Securityscape Tagged Applied Cultural Research, Cultural Policy, Cultural security, Culturomics, International affairs, Metaphor Leave a comment

Cultural Diplomacy and Heritage Wars

Over the past two decades cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, has become an increasingly evident – and fraught – subject of foreign affairs. One reason is a recent proliferation of multilateral conventions by UNESCO, among others, more specifically articulating international frameworks for the protection and conservation of cultural heritage globally. These include the 2003 […]

Posted in Applied cultural research, Cultural diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Culture and the Securityscape, Soft power Tagged Applied Cultural Research, arts diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Policy, Cultural security, Military, Soft Power Leave a comment

Cultural Exchange and the Politics of Suspicion

This past week the Washington Post ran a story about the troubles of Russian lawmaker Dimitri Gudkov, assailed by his government for having the temerity to visit the U.S. and address U.S.-Russian relations on Capitol Hill. As the short article explained Gudkov was in the U.S. to participate in a forum dedicated to “democracy and human rights,” organized […]

Posted in Cultural diplomacy, Cultural exchange, Soft power Tagged China, Civil society, Cultural Diplomacy, cultural exchange, Cultural Policy, Journalism, Russia, Soft Power Leave a comment

Risk Assessment in Encounters between Culture and Security

Since at least the late 2000s, I have been observing – sometimes organizing, and sometimes participating in – diverse forums featuring different combinations of politicos, policy decision-makers, academics, and applied practitioners, which have broached the relationship between “culture” and “security,” sometimes in overlapping but often in notably different ways. At times, the purpose is to […]

Posted in Cultural diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Culture and the Securityscape Tagged Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Cultural property, Cultural security, Culture, Military Leave a comment
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Blogroll

  • 3 Quarks Daily
  • Anthropology Now
  • Anthropologyworks
  • Arts Diplomacy Network
  • Aspen Institute's Global Initiative on Culture and Society
  • Crooked Timber
  • Cultural Heritage Web
  • Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago
  • Culture Matters
  • Ethnography Matters
  • Exchange — The Journal of Public Diplomacy
  • Intermap
  • International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
  • John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
  • MountainRunner
  • Public Diplomacy Council
  • Savage Minds
  • Slate's Future Tense
  • Take Five
  • The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy
  • USC Public Diplomacy Center Blog

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Global Dialogues among Cultural Producers in an Era of Nativist Travel Bans
  • Inauthenticity and the Tweet Tweet of Digital Diplomacy
  • Cultural Diplomacy of and by the Book
  • Troping the Enemy: Culture, Metaphor Programs, and Notional Publics of National Security
  • The Arts of International Affairs: Time for a New Conversation about Culture

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