The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power Among Tibetans in China - Couverture rigide

Makley, Charlene

 
9781501719646: The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power Among Tibetans in China
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ISBN 10 : 1501719645 ISBN 13 : 9781501719646
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology's qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of economic development campaigns in China's multiethnic northwestern province of Qinghai.

Charlene Makley considers Tibetans' encounters with development projects as first and foremost a historically situated interpretive politics, in which people negotiate the presence or absence of moral and authoritative persons and their associated jurisdictions and powers. Because most Tibetans believe the active presence of deities and other invisible beings has been the ground of power, causation, and fertile or fortunate landscapes, Makley also takes divine beings seriously, refusing to relegate them to a separate, less consequential, "religious" or "premodern" world. The Battle for Fortune, therefore challenges readers to grasp the unique reality of Tibetans' values and fears in the face of their marginalization in China. Makley uses this approach to encourage a more multidimensional and dynamic understanding of state-local relations than mainstream accounts of development and unrest that portray Tibet and China as a kind of yin-and-yang pair for models of statehood and development in a new global order.

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À propos de l'auteur

Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology in the Anthropology Department, Reed College. She is author of The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1501719645
ISBN 13 
9781501719646
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
348
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781501719677: The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power Among Tibetans in China

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  150171967X ISBN 13 :  9781501719677
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2018
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