Cities, museums and soft power /
'Soft power' emerged as a concept in the late twentieth century to describe international relations based not on military or economic strength, but on influence. While the resources of 'hard power' are tangible, force and finance, soft power resources include ideas, knowledge, va...
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Washington, D.C. :
AAM Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why cities, museums and soft power / Gail Dexter Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg
- The economics of museums and cities / Javier Jimenez
- Museums in public diplomacy / Frederica Olivares
- London's knowledge quarter : the soft power of museums in the knowledge economy and urban development / Baillie Card
- Museums in the age of Brazilian soft power / Gege Leme Joseph
- Museums as signifiers in the Gulf / Hayfa Matar
- When soft powers collide / Ngaire Blankenberg
- Unearthing the genius loci of museums in the Indian subcontinent / Batul Raaj Mehta
- Cultural nomads : creative people on the road / Robert Punkenhofer
- Cranking up the soft power engine of Chinese museums / An Laishun
- A tale of two civil and human rights cities / Gail Dexter Lord and Joy Bailey Bryant
- Cairo and its museums : from multiculturalism to leadership in sustainable development / Mohamed Gamal Rashed
- Global and local : fairs and biennials, temporary urbanism and pop-up museums / Lourdes Fernandez
- The museum building boom / Guido Guerzoni
- Thirty-two ways for museums to activate their soft power / Ngaire Blankenbert and Gail Dexter Lord.