{"product_id":"museum-diplomacy-how-cultural-institutions-shape-global-engagement-9781538137208","title":"Museum Diplomacy: How Cultural Institutions Shape","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum diplomacy has come to new prominence in the contemporary moment. Museums have increasingly global agendas, advancing diverse international partnerships across the world. Moreover, they hold the potential to advance cross-cultural education and foster mutual understanding at a moment when we are beset by global challenges. Acknowledging the troubled histories of these institutions and their contested status, \u003ci\u003eMuseum Diplomacy: How Cultural Institutions Shape Global Engagement \u003c\/i\u003erecognizes the pivotal contributions of museums? global work, while also grappling with the significant issues, questions and possibilities that these activities raise. The collection features examinations of museum diplomacy by fifteen leading scholars and museum practitioners. These texts address global case studies that speak to museum practices related to objects, collections, and people, and charting foundational concepts and ideas. Taken as a whole, the book provides contemporary examples, grounded in historic context, along with provocations and explorations of best practices, providing points for reflection along with guidance for practitioners and scholars alike. Through these wide-ranging contributions, \u003ci\u003eMuseum Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e also contributes a new understanding of cultural diplomacy that recognizes the vital diplomatic work of curators, museum administrators, and other museum professionals, as well as how these practitioners exert their own agency in ways that may or may not align with broader government and institutional agendas. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eMuseum Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e calls on the sector to rethink their perceptions of cultural diplomacy and embrace an expansive understanding of the diplomatic practitioner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCultural diplomacy is rapidly becoming a hot topic. As we read of its permutations in this valuable book of essays on the subject, it is a book that will surely influence, even redirect the course of museum practice.\u003c\/p\u003e -- William Underwood Eiland, former director, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Global Work of Museum Diplomacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah E.K. Smith \u0026amp; Sascha Priewe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Museums as Diplomatic Sites\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSascha Priewe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Exhibitions and Loans as Cosmopolitan Ambassadors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee Davidson \u0026amp; Leticia Pérez Castellanos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Envoys: Object-Entities and Repatriation in Counter-Hegemonic Museum Diplomacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Alan Shelton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Museum Diplomacy for Sustainable Development and Human Rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry McGhie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Satellite Museums\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia M. Goff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Terracotta Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDa Kong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Museums, Diaspora and Migration: Looking for New Paradigms in ‘Times of Crisis’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimona Bodo and Anna Chiara Cimoli\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Inclusion and Refusal in Indigenous Museum Diplomacies: Three Moments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Grussani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Cultural Production as a Diplomatic Process: The National Museum of Qatar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Exell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Between the US and Asia: Exhibitions and Summits as Cultural Diplomacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelissa Chiu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Smithsonian Global: Looking Beyond Our Borders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiz Tunick Cedar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Engaging the World Through Museum Collections and Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChen Shen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Global Museum Networks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSascha Priewe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Training \u0026amp; Exchange Programs: Why People Matter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnaïs Aguerre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Global Citizenship as an Instrument of Museum Diplomacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimge Erdogan-O’Connor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041163346263,"sku":"9781538137208","price":100.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538137208.jpg?v=1750949191","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/museum-diplomacy-how-cultural-institutions-shape-global-engagement-9781538137208","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}