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The Lama Question - Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia (Hardcover)
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The Lama Question - Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia (Hardcover)
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Before becoming the second socialist country in the world (after
the Soviet Union) in 1921, Mongolia had been a Buddhist feudal
theocracy. Combatting the influence of the dominant Buddhist
establishment to win the hearts and minds of the Mongolian people
was one of the most important challenges faced by the new socialist
government. It would take almost a decade and a half to resolve the
"lama question," and it would be answered with brutality,
destruction, and mass killings. Chris Kaplonski examines this
critical, violent time in the development of Mongolia as a
nation-state and its ongoing struggle for independence and
recognition in the twentieth century. Unlike most studies that
explore violence as the primary means by which states deal with
their opponents, The Lama Question argues that the decision to
resort to violence in Mongolia was not a quick one; neither was it
a long-term strategy nor an out-of control escalation of orders but
the outcome of a complex series of events and attempts by the
government to be viewed as legitimate by the population. Kaplonski
draws on a decade of research and archival resources to investigate
the problematic relationships between religion and politics and
geopolitics and bio politics in early socialist Mongolia, as well
as the multitude of state actions that preceded state brutality. By
examining the incidents and transformations that resulted in
violence and by viewing violence as a process rather than an event,
his work not only challenges existing theories of political
violence, but also offers another approach to the anthropology of
the state. In particular, it presents an alternative model to
philosopher Georgio Agamben's theory of sovereignty and the state
of exception. The Lama Question will be of interest to scholars and
students of violence, the state, bio politics, Buddhism, and
socialism, as well as to those interested in the history of
Mongolia and Asia in general.
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