The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
New Books in Geography
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The Negative Consultation on the Silk Road
The way you describe these different cultures meeting runs up against the current idea of cultural appropriation big a bad thing so is that now becoming an objection to the use of the phrase Silk Road and giving it a negative consultation? Well that's a very interesting question and cultural appropriation speaks to the issue of someone taking someone else's culture. It doesn't kind of speak to those national senses of a cultural past in the ways in which other we often think about history and culture. So when we think of cultural diplomacy and soft power that is framed as one country trying to export its cultural or social goods to another country, others might be buying into them. But the Silk Road as a geocultural imaginary of
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