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[ecrea] new book Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood

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Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood



By Daya Kishan Thussu



Global Public Diplomacy Series, Palgrave/Macmillan, New York, 230 Pages, October 2013



ISBN: 9781137027887. Order online at www.palgrave.com





Book Description

In recent years, India has emerged as a major economic and political power: on the basis of purchasing-power parity, it was the world’s third largest economy in 2012. Yet the country’s cultural influence outside India has not been adequately analysed in academic discourses. As the world’s largest democracy with a vibrant and pluralist media system, India offers an excellent case study of the power of culture and communication in the age of mediated international relations. This book, a pioneering attempt, from an international communication/media perspective, is aimed to fill the existing gap in scholarship in this area. The discussion of India’s rising soft power is located within a historical context, thus problematizing the notion of Soft Power itself. The book is aimed at university courses on global media/international relations/area studies - among others.



About the Author

Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and the Co-Director of the India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. With a PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he is the founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication. Among his key publications are: Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (Sage, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (Routledge, 2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (Sage, 2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (Routledge, 2007); International Communication - Continuity and Change, third edition (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming); and Electronic Empires - Global Media and Local Resistance (Arnold, 1998).



Contents

Introduction

1   De-Americanizing Soft Power

2   Historical Context of India’s Soft Power

3   India Abroad: the Diasporic Dividend

4   Software for Soft Power

5   Culture as Soft Power – Bollywood and Beyond

6   Branding India – a Public-Private Partnership

Conclusion

References



Endorsements

‘Those acquainted with Daya Thussu as the editor of the respected journal Global Media and Communication and his earlier publications will not be surprised by this excellent, comprehensive yet brief survey of the scope and limits of India’s Soft Power and the country’s changing status in global public culture and media. This book will remain a powerful aid to scholars and researchers seeking clues to the many undercurrents in India’s definition of its global presence and the projection of that self-definition through its public diplomacy.’ Professor Ashis Nandy, Senior Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi



‘Daya Thussu elegantly places India’s Soft Power in its historical and cultural framework, deftly managing the geopolitical and technological context. His analysis is innovative and persuasive, as is fitting in telling a grand tale of a grand Indian narrative’. Professor Monroe Price, Director, Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA



‘Daya Thussu’s Communicating India's Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood rescues the concept of soft power from American hands and applies it insightfully to India, and the concept is made richer and more useful as a result. With its dynamic and prosperous diaspora, the growing global popularity of its spiritual beliefs and practice, its reach as a global economic and technological powerhouse, and even its cherished cuisine, India’s growing soft power potential is evident. Yet Thussu also takes a hard look at the impediments that stand in the way of India taking full advantage of its soft power appeal. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in broadening their understanding of the role of soft power in foreign affairs.’ Professor Steven Livingston, Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, George Washington University, USA



‘A balanced, learned and historically informed analysis of India’s global presence and the soft power that accompanies it. The book contains many important insights and should be of value to decision makers and general public alike.’ Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Emeritus Professor, University of Westminster, UK

Dr Daya K. Thussu

Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre

Department of Journalism and Mass Communications

School of Media, Arts and Design

University of Westminster

Northwick Park, Harrow, HA1 3TP

Tel: +44(0)207911 5000 Ext: 4157   Fax: +44(0)2079115943

(D.K.Thussu /at/ westminster.ac.uk)

www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/media/camri/research-staff/thussu,-daya



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