Decentering the Nature-Culture Divide in Diplomacy

North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative

Building on the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative’s work to address the question of culture’s role in diplomacy.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 2 pm ET/1 pm CT/11 am PT on Zoom.To view a detailed description of the event, including panelists and moderators, click <a href="https://culturaldiplomacyinitiative.com/2022/01/29/decentring-the-nature-culture-divide-our-summit-conversation-continues/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>. This event focuses on statist diplomacy as a Eurocentric practice to advance a discussion of a diplomacy that is refracted by applying posthumanist and post-anthropocentrist lenses. Taking as a starting point the first forms of diplomacy on the North American continent, which were, and continue to be practiced by Indigenous Peoples, the panel also brings into play Islamic perspectives and posthumanist discourses. This panel suggests that to properly examine “cultural diplomacy,” the centrality of a nation-state-based understanding of “culture” that excludes other ways of knowing and stands in opposition to “nature” must be problematized. Viewing diplomatic practice and orientation through the lens of what Glen Coulthard (2014) terms “grounded normativity”, this session challenges the ways in which Cartesian dualism of nature and culture provide a limited understanding of being in and relating to the world. Re-orientating our relationship to time and place, grounded normativity centers histories, practices, and ways of relating to one another which contest the state-centric and settler-colonial orders and broadens the scope of diplomacy to include non-human players.<h3>Panelists</h3>Linda Etchart, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Kingston, UK; journalist; editor; unsettler.Tasha Beeds, Lecturer, Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan; Ron Ianni Scholar, Indigenous Legal Orders Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor; Visiting Indigenous Scholar, Anako Indigenous Research Institute, Carleton University.Christine Daigle, Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University.Azeezah Kanji,  Muslim Canadian settler; legal academic and journalist; Director of Programming, Noor Cultural Centre. <h3>Introductions by</h3>Sarah E. K. Smith, Team member, NACDI.Jeffrey Brison, Team member, NACDI.Rebecka Ulfgard, collaborator, NACDI.César Villanueva, Team member, NACDI.<h3>Moderators </h3>Sascha Priewe, Team member, NACDI.Lynda Jessup, Director, NACDI.Contact culturaldiplomacysummit@gmail.com if you have any questions.See you soon!

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