Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage : Negotiating Dispossession.

Cover -- Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage -- Tibetan Subjectivitieson the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Strategies of Identity in Motion -- Chapter 1 -- Zhangzhung, Bön, and China -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- Narratives of Becoming -- Newcomer Marginalization in India -- Tibet in China/Tibet in the World -- Tibet-born Tibetans in the United States -- Narratives, Counter-narratives, and Becoming -- Constraints on Narrative -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- Click Here for Enlightenment -- Scenario One: The Ironic -- Scenario Two: The Romantic -- The Spirit of Romanticism and the Protestant Buddhist Ethic -- The Electronic Vernacular and Simulated Politics -- Slumming in the Himalayas and Lobbying in Washington -- Opinions, Both Pro and (Mostly) Con -- Alternative Utopias and Cybersanghas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- The Words of the Developees -- The Installation and Development in Exile -- The Development Relationship in the West -- The Development Relationship for the Tibetans -- The Western Reception -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Reclaiming Dispossession through Writing -- Chapter 5 -- Acting and Speaking through Modern Tibetan Poetry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- A Tibetan Heart in a Chinese Mouth -- The Author -- Notes on Tibet -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix I-List of Woeser's Main Sources Used in the Notes on Tibet: -- Appendix II-List of Woeser's Book Publications in Chinese and Western Languages: -- Chapter 7 -- Inner Emigration and Concealed Writing -- Inner Emigration and Concealed Writing -- Authenticity, Competence, and Shared Identity -- Customary Law and Social Regulations -- Invoking Ancient Traditions: Folk Stories and Legends.

Conclusion: Unveiling the Concealed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Political Cultures of Exile -- Chapter 8 -- The Last Gift of the God-King -- The Challenges of Tibetan Constitutionalism -- The Person and the Office of the Dalai Lama -- The Power of Loyalty -- Narrating the Devolution of Powers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- Exile Tibetans and the Dance of Democracy -- Historical Background: Were Tibetans Democratic? -- The Institutionalization of Democracy in Exile -- Central Tibetan Administration, Tibetan Unity, and Democracy -- Democracy in the Post-2011 Phase -- The 2015-2016 Sikyong Elections in an Undemocratic Flavor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 -- Who Is a Pure Tibetan? -- Looking Tibetan -- Speaking Tibetan -- Being Tibetan -- History -- Culture Preservation -- Theorizing Purity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 -- Annual Commemorations and Celebrations -- Tibetan National Ceremonies in Dolanji -- Tibetan Uprising Day -- Narrative Themes up to the 1980s: Invasion, Resistance, Flight, and Exile -- Creating a National Identity among Diverse Regional and Religious Identities -- Shifting Demand from Tibet's Independence to Autonomy: The Middle Way Approach in the Late 1980s -- The Perspective of Bonpo Leadership to the Changes in the Discourse on National Identity -- Celebrating the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Birthday -- Conclusion: Recurrent Events as Forms of Narration and Performative Ritual -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.

Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage provides a comprehensive account of the ways Tibetans are reimagining their sense of belonging in the realms of politics, religion, and development. Drawing on sources and examples from Tibet and its diaspora, this book offers an image of Tibetan identity as a multifaceted, living, and changing entity.

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