Building relations: assembling an auto-geography of the diplomatic home

IF 2.4 2区 社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY
Timo Sysiö
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Geographic literature on diplomatic spatiality has largely focused on the official sites of diplomacy, while neglecting the importance of the diplomatic home in everyday working life. Considering this gap in the literature, the present article extends the recent interest in critical geographies of home and considers its potential in furthering our understanding of interstate diplomacy. The paper assembles the affective atmospheres of the diplomatic home through a bottom-up perspective that combines the author’s personal experiences as a Finnish career diplomat inhabiting a middle-class Turkish apartment with the oral accounts of his houseguests. Attention is given to the creation of images of national culture and design through micro-scale country-branding efforts. The analysis shows that while home atmospheres can be manipulated for diplomatic ends, there are also disjunctures between idealised designs and the embodied experiences of diplomatic houseguests. The article ends by discussing the implications of the present study for the literature on critical geographies of diplomacy.
建立关系:构建外交家园的自动地理图谱
关于外交空间性的地理文献大多集中在外交的官方场所,而忽视了外交家在日常工作生活中的重要性。考虑到文献中的这一空白,本文扩展了最近对国内关键地理学的兴趣,并考虑了其在进一步理解州际外交方面的潜力。本文通过自下而上的视角,将作者作为一名芬兰职业外交官居住在土耳其中产阶级公寓的个人经历与他的客人的口头叙述结合起来,汇集了外交之家的情感氛围。注重通过微观的国家品牌努力创造民族文化形象和设计。分析表明,虽然家庭气氛可以为外交目的而操纵,但理想化的设计与外交客人的具体体验之间也存在脱节。文章最后讨论了本研究对外交关键地理学文献的启示。
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