[수당 해외학자 초청 콜로키움 #14] Practicing and Producing Culture

• 일시 : 2022년 6월 3일 (금요일) 오후 5:00
• 강연자 : Deepak Nair (National University of Singapore)
• 주관 : 고려대학교 정치외교학과, 평화와 민주주의연구소

2022년 6월 3일 고려대학교 정치외교학과와 평화와 민주주의 연구소는 Deepak Nair 교수를 초청하여 제14회 수당 해외학자 초청 콜로키움을 개최하였습니다. 콜로키움에서 저자는 <Practicing and Producing Culture>의 논문을 통해 ASEAN이라는 국제제도 안에서 국가들이 만들어가는 문화와 규범에 관한 내용을 발표하였습니다.

발표논문 초록: Studies of ‘culture’ and ‘practice’ in International Relations (IR) mostly talk past one another despite shared intellectual origins and influences. This paper offers a bridge by foregrounding a conception of culture grounded in concrete practical activity. Drawing on William H. Sewell Jr’s definition of culture as the “semiotic dimension of human social practice,” the paper explores the potential of the culture concept in IR with a few questions: how can we use culture in a manner that is conceptually precise and analytically helpful? How might one reconcile the emic uses of essentialist and self-orientalist representations in “cultural” discourses of practitioners without naturalising these invocations and obscuring their political effects? How can culture as practice sharpen the study of power? I respond to these questions by probing a puzzle about the everyday cultural production of ASEAN’s diplomacy.