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Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012)

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Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012) - Gillespie, Marie (Editor), and Webb, Alban (Editor)
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Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical and comparative analysis of the 'corporate cosmopolitanism' that has characterized the work of the BBC's international services since the inception of its Empire Service in 1932 - from radio to the Internet. A series of empirically-grounded case studies, within a shared analytical framework, interrogate ...

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Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012) 2015, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138822962

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Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012) 2012, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780415508803

Hardcover