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At Home with the Diplomats : Inside a European Foreign Ministry / Iver B. Neumann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of KnowledgePublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 1 halftone, 4 line drawings, 1 mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801449932
  • 9780801462993
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.4 23
LOC classification:
  • JZ1570.A59 N48 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Who Are They and Where Do They Come From? -- 1. Abroad: The Emergence of Permanent Diplomacy -- 2. At Home: The Emergence of the Foreign Ministry -- 3. The Bureaucratic Mode of Knowledge Production -- 4. To Be a Diplomat -- 5. Diplomats Gendered and Classed -- Conclusion: Diplomatic Knowledge -- References -- Index
Summary: The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that there is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a foreign ministry. Neumann worked for several years at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he had an up-close view of how diplomats conduct their business and how they perceive their own practices. In this book he shows us how diplomacy is conducted on a day-to-day basis.Approaching contemporary diplomacy from an anthropological perspective, Neumann examines the various aspects of diplomatic work and practice, including immunity, permanent representation, diplomatic sociability, accreditation, and issues of gender equality. Neumann shows that the diplomat working abroad and the diplomat at home are engaged in two different modes of knowledge production. Diplomats in the field focus primarily on gathering and processing information. In contrast, the diplomat based in his or her home capital is caught up in the seemingly endless production of texts: reports, speeches, position papers, and the like. Neumann leaves the reader with a keen sense of the practices of diplomacy: relations with foreign ministries, mediating between other people's positions while integrating personal and professional into a cohesive whole, adherence to compulsory routines and agendas, and, above all, the generation of knowledge. Yet even as they come to master such "idian tasks, diplomats are regularly called upon to do exceptional things, such as negotiating peace.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Who Are They and Where Do They Come From? -- 1. Abroad: The Emergence of Permanent Diplomacy -- 2. At Home: The Emergence of the Foreign Ministry -- 3. The Bureaucratic Mode of Knowledge Production -- 4. To Be a Diplomat -- 5. Diplomats Gendered and Classed -- Conclusion: Diplomatic Knowledge -- References -- Index

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The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that there is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a foreign ministry. Neumann worked for several years at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he had an up-close view of how diplomats conduct their business and how they perceive their own practices. In this book he shows us how diplomacy is conducted on a day-to-day basis.Approaching contemporary diplomacy from an anthropological perspective, Neumann examines the various aspects of diplomatic work and practice, including immunity, permanent representation, diplomatic sociability, accreditation, and issues of gender equality. Neumann shows that the diplomat working abroad and the diplomat at home are engaged in two different modes of knowledge production. Diplomats in the field focus primarily on gathering and processing information. In contrast, the diplomat based in his or her home capital is caught up in the seemingly endless production of texts: reports, speeches, position papers, and the like. Neumann leaves the reader with a keen sense of the practices of diplomacy: relations with foreign ministries, mediating between other people's positions while integrating personal and professional into a cohesive whole, adherence to compulsory routines and agendas, and, above all, the generation of knowledge. Yet even as they come to master such "idian tasks, diplomats are regularly called upon to do exceptional things, such as negotiating peace.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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