Longform

Long essays offering in-depth peer-reviewed
analysis of cultural expression

Between the Local, the Global, and the Aid Economy in Palestine: The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM) at the Christmas Concert for Life and Peace in Bethlehem (1/29/2021)
Can Soft Power be Bought and Why Does it Matter? (1/29/2021)
Artists as agents of change. Civil society engagement and foreign cultural policy in the Tunisian transformation process (1/29/2021)
I’ll do it when Dame Judi Dench does it. Song of Romania versus Arts Council England: A question of public engagement, relevance and diversity in theatre-making (6/24/2020)
Whose governance, whose good? Cultural Policy and Governance in the Philippines (6/24/2020)
The Aesthetics of a Moveable Border: Muralism and Control of Space in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands (3/3/2020)
The New Agenda for Culture as a Tool for European Integration: A Critical Analysis (3/3/2020)
Art-Power and Border Art (10/27/2019)
Cosmopolitanism as a Potential Theoretical Solution to the Challenges of Globalised Urbanisation (10/27/2019)
Music Education and the Production of Prestige: West German Music Diplomacy in South Vietnam (1960–1968) (10/24/2018)
The Barenboim Case: How to Link Music and Diplomacy Studies (10/21/2018)
Korean Popular Culture and Historical Sensibilities in East Asia (5/14/2018)
The Enduring Vision of a World without War: UNESCO’s Orient Catalogue 1959 and the Construction of an International Society (5/14/2018)
On Pedro Reyes’ The People’s United Nations (2013–2014)—Overlaps and Disjunctions Between Contemporary Art and International Affairs (2/7/2018)
The Scales, Politics, and Political Economies of Contemporary Art Biennials (2/7/2018)
Art and the Global (7/19/2017)
Culture Wars as Clashes of Identity (7/19/2017)
From Spectating to Witnessing: Performance in the Here and Now (7/19/2017)
The Case for High Art (7/19/2017)
Insiders and Outsiders at Festivals (7/19/2017)
Cultural Interactions at the Edinburgh Festivals, c1947–1971 (7/19/2017)
Curating Public Art 2.0: The Case of “Autopoiesis” (1/21/2017)
The Museum as a Transnational Actor (1/21/2017)
Cultural Stratification and Cultural Policies: Perspectives of Cultural Globalism, The Case of Croatia (1/21/2017)
Colonial Wars and Aesthetic Reworking: The Artist as Moral Witness (1/21/2017)
Global Cultural Law and Policy and the Internet: A Tale of Parallel Worlds (3/14/2016)
Who Holds the Power in Soft Power? (3/13/2016)
A Subaltern Performance: Circulations of Gender, Islam, and Nation in India’s Song of Defiance (3/13/2016)
Reflection of the Cultural Policy in Human Rights Issues in Taiwan and the Response of the Art World (3/8/2016)