The WWII co-operation of exiled political representations assembled in London counts to my research subjects. Hardly a revelation: the picture is complicated, probably little more disappointing than one is likely to expect when entering the ground. In a manuscript which I hope to publish soon I conclude:
"The story sketched in this article documents how difficult it was for small European nations, despite a common enemy and a shared meeting-place, to find solid ground for mutual understanding. ...The activities of the exiles were first and foremost directed to the preservation of their threatened nationsʼ identity, state, cultural or other. Thus, much of the communication between them was condemned to fail or to get lost ʻin translationʼ of cultural codes."
Intercultural communication is no doubt the issue I address here. Unfortunately, most literature I came across studies communication between "Great Cultures". This is still useful but my issue - intercultural communication within one (European, Western) culture - seems to lay pretty below the prevalent level of analysis.
Any reading suggestions? 1900-1950 scope will be appreciated.
Please reframe your question and elaboration. It is unclear where you start and where you are going?
Dear Kevin, thank you. Yes, the trouble is that I really don´t know where I am going with this (or, better, where it will lead me).. Principally I am interested if there is any research about intercultural communication among nations which are likely to have "a reasonable degree of cultural congruence", f. ex. they all belong to Western/Latin culture What is that "reasonable degree" and what is most likely to be left out? How does this translates into political communication, especially to its failures? In my opinion, answers may be obvious when we are talking about communication among nations distant from one another - and this is what attracts most researchers, I think - but rathe dim when we study nations of the same culture.
The different chapters in ‘Resistance in Western Europe’ edited by Bob Moore (2000) deal quite a lot with the relationship between the SOE, the different governments in exile and the local resistance groups, both in supporting sabotage activities in Europe and in curbing the advance of leftist groups in preparation for the return of the governments in exile.
Dear Yoav, thank you for your recommendation. I am sure I will find the titbits of the kind of communication I am thinking about in this volume (which I have not met so far). Posting this Q I was hoping to find something more theoretical than empirical.
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