Bottom-up cultural diplomacy in the Greek periphery: The city of Chania and Dance Days Chania festival

Q1 Social Sciences City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ccs.2022.100448
Olga Kolokytha
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This paper uses the case of Dance Days Chania, a contemporary dance festival in Chania, the second biggest city of the island of Crete, Greece to discuss a bottom-up example of cultural diplomacy in an urban framework. It discusses how a small-scale international festival acts as a cultural diplomacy actor for its hosting city, attributing an international flair to the periphery and adding to the long-established association of the country with cultural heritage, that of contemporary culture. The topography of the city and the festival, creative expression, interaction of and engagement with the people as well as the art genre itself, work as enablers of cultural diplomacy which is exercised here by means of an inclusive cultural experience rather than a simple projection of national cultural representations, with citizens actively participating and contributing throughout the process. The paper argues that cultural diplomacy can also take place outside of national political agendas and be rooted at citizen's initiatives and collective action.

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希腊周边地区自下而上的文化外交:哈尼亚城和哈尼亚舞蹈节
本文以希腊克里特岛第二大城市Chania的当代舞蹈节Dance Days Chania为例,探讨城市框架下自下而上的文化外交范例。它讨论了一个小规模的国际节日如何作为其主办城市的文化外交演员,将国际风格赋予周边地区,并增加国家与文化遗产的长期联系,即当代文化。城市的地形和节日,创造性的表达,与人民的互动和接触以及艺术类型本身,作为文化外交的推动者,在这里通过包容性的文化体验而不是简单的国家文化代表的投射来实现,公民积极参与并在整个过程中做出贡献。本文认为,文化外交也可以在国家政治议程之外进行,并植根于公民的倡议和集体行动。
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City, Culture and Society Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
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