Culture as Soft Power: Bridging Cultural Relations, Intellectual Cooperation, and Cultural Diplomacy

This book contributes to bridge the gap between different scholarly communities interested in the entanglements of culture and politics in the international arena. It sheds light on existing connections in their parallel evolution with a thorough literature review, complemented by several case studies showing the fruitful character of their interdisciplinary mobilisation. Through the notions of cultural relations, intellectual cooperation and cultural diplomacy, the book draws on a soft power perspective to offer a shared, novel, and interdisciplinary theoretical framework to approach cultural institutions and organisations that have been previously examined as isolated objects: for example, cultural institutes, international organisations, literary magazines, and literary contests. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume justifies the relevance of its content for scholars working in the history of international relations, international cultural relations and intellectual history, comparative literature, sociology of literature and global literary studies.

Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Swinging Between Culture and Politics: Novel Interdisciplinary Perspectives --; International Cultural Relations, Historiographic Sketch, and New Conceptual Issues --; Women and Diplomatic Life: An Overview with Methodological Directions and Proposals --; The Paris/Geneva Divide --; Chilean Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Internationalisms: An Entangled History (1927–1940s) --; Peace? Debates on Intellectual Cooperation in America. Santiago, 1939 --; Cinema and Education: Translating the International Educational Cinematographic Institute to 1930s Chile --; Articulating Britishness: Cultural Mediators and the Development of the British Institute of Florence --; From Catalan PEN to the World: Writers, Activists, and Diplomats --; The Europäische Revue and the European Cultural Union: Culture and Soft Power in the Interwar Period --; Two Anarchist Cultural Agents Forging the Twentieth-Century Uruguayan Cultural Field: Publishing as Soft Power --; The Floral Games and Literary Contests in Catalan (1859–1977): An Institutionalising and Nationalising Device of Transnational Scope --; Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Heritage: Envisioned, Refused, Denied, Accomplished (1889–1969) --; On the World Peace Movement and the Early Internationalisation of Latin American Literature --; Book Festival Organisations and the Popularisation of Latin American Literature in the Mid-Twentieth Century --; The European Union Prize for Literature: Disseminating European Values through Translation and Supranational Consecration --; Contributors --; Author Index --; Subject Index