Chapter
Published:
Diplomacy, the arts, and popular culture
Written by
Iver B. Neumann
Former employee
Ed.
Summary:
Diplomacy usually takes place in settings that are constructed not only with a view to functionality, but also to beauty. Beauty lends status and ambiance to diplomatic sites. The first part of this entry discusses the use of art by diplomats. The second part discusses how diplomacy is represented in popular culture and art. Since very few people have first‐hand knowledge of diplomacy, and diplomacy as such is rarely given much exposure in the news, most people owe their understanding of diplomacy to representations of diplomacy in popular culture and the arts. These representations have legitimacy effects. They feed back into how diplomats represent themselves to the public and, by extension, into how politicians represent issues to the public. In this sense, representations of diplomacy have an indirect constitutive effect on diplomacy.
- Published year: 2018
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Page count: 2168
- Language: Engelsk
Written by
Iver B. Neumann
Former employee