PUBLIC POLICY ANTHROPOLOGIST

ROBERT ALBRO

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Collaborative/Creative Diplomacy/Partnerships

Stephanie Stallings recently suggested that creative collaboration is a useful model for cultural diplomacy. She is definitely onto something. Circumstances have changed around the work of diplomacy. Publics are now much less distant, more assertive, and actively engaged participants in the making of their encompassing cultural worlds. To embrace this new reality likely requires rethinking […]

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The Hard and Soft of Cultural Diplomacy: Networks and Stories in Global Affairs

Amy Zalman recently proposed that “soft power” – as a conceptual frame for understanding global politics – is too narrow and has outlived its usefulness. Her provocation generated fruitful responses and suggests that we might be ready to stop treading water and move beyond our decade-long fixation with the term to new and more constructive places. Zalman rightly […]

Posted in Cultural diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Social Networks Tagged Anthropology, cultural dialogue, Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Intercultural Dialogue, Social networks, Soft Power 2 Comments

Aspiring to an Interest-free Cultural Diplomacy?

When I hear from people about the relative advantages of cultural diplomacy, they often point to the apparent “neutrality” or “apolitical” basis of, say, cultural exchange. Coming from an anthropological background, this often advanced claim has always puzzled me. At least historically, when anthropologists have talked about cultures – for example, in the typical mode […]

Posted in Cultural diplomacy, Cultural exchange, Cultural Policy, Cultural relativism, Propaganda Tagged Cultural Diplomacy, cultural exchange, Cultural Policy, Cultural relativism, Culture, Intercultural Dialogue, Propaganda Leave a comment

Dilemmas of a Dyslexic Public Diplomacy

Does public diplomacy in the U.S. know how to listen? This was the question inspiring a conference I organized not long ago at American University. Historically the evidence is not encouraging. If it has become routine for new Undersecretaries for Public Diplomacy at the State Department to pledge to “listen more and lecture less,” little […]

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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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