This research responds to the fact that understandings of cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations are limited to and shaped by the Western disciplinary formations in which they take place.
This research responds to understandings of diplomacy and international relations that are limited to and shaped by Western knowledge formations. Troubling the hegemony of Westphalian diplomacy, we seek to advance work recognizing the larger field of diplomatic action in which the practice of diplomacy and international relations takes place—one in which state-based cultural relations is but one type. As such, this initiative foregrounds histories of Indigenous diplomatic action and arts-based approaches.
Jeff Thomas, c. 2004, series Hiawatha Wampum Graffito, near Arnporior
