Marsden, Magnus, Ibanez-Tirado, Diana, Henig, David (2016) Everyday Diplomacy: Introduction to Special Issue. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 34 (2). pp. 2-22. ISSN 0305-7674. (doi:10.3167/ca.2016.340202) (KAR id:55983)
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Abstract
This article assesses debates concerning the relevance of an ethnographic approach towards the study of diplomacy. By drawing upon recent developments across the disciplines of anthropology, diplomatic studies, geopolitics, political geography, and global history we critically reassess the ongoing assumption that in the modern world diplomacy is separated from other domains of human life. We build on work in anthropology and related disciplines that has argued for the need to move beyond the postulation that the only actors authorised and able to conduct diplomacy are the nation-state’s representatives. Having outlined recent theoretical interventions concerning the turn towards the study of everyday, unofficial and grassroots forms of diplomacy, the paper suggests some of the ways in which ethnography can be deployed in order to understand how individuals and communities affected by geopolitical processes develop and pursue diplomatic modes of agency and ask how they relate to, evaluate, and arbitrate between the geopolitical realms that affect their lives. In so doing, we propose an analytical heuristic - everyday diplomacy - to attend to the ways individuals and communities engage with and influence decisions about world-affairs.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.3167/ca.2016.340202 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Diplomacy; the everyday; ethnography; popular geopolitics; exchange |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation |
Depositing User: | D. Henig |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2016 08:43 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 13:35 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/55983 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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