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Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic
Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability showcases how the
eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the
landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan
communities. Unique in scope, this book features case studies from
Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian
borderlands, many of which are documented by authors from
indigenous Himalayan communities. It explores three environmental
characteristics of modern Himalayas: the anthropogenic, the
indigenous, and the animist. Focusing on the sentient relations of
human-, animal-, and spirit-worlds with the earth in different
parts of the Himalayas, the authors present the complex meanings of
indigeneity, commoning and sustainability in the Anthropocene. In
doing so, they show the vital role that indigenous stories and
perspectives play in building new regional and planetary
environmental ethics for a sustainable future. Drawing on a wide
range of expert contributions from the natural sciences, social
sciences, and humanist disciplines, this book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of environmental humanities,
religion and ecology, indigenous knowledge and sustainable
development more broadly.
Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan
regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book
explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with
cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of
Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the
author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such
revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the
book demonstrates that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in
contemporary China is intimately bound with both the affirming and
negating forces of globalization, modernity, and politics of
religion, indigenous identity reclamation, and the market economy.
The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of Tibetan Buddhism
in relation to different religious, cultural, and political
constituencies of China. By recognizing the greater contexts of
China's politics of religion and of the global status of Tibetan
Buddhism, this book presents an argument that the revival of
Tibetan Buddhism is not an isolated event limited merely to Tibetan
regions; instead, it is a result of the intersection of both local
and global transformative changes. The book is a useful
contribution to students and scholars of Asian religion and Chinese
studies.
This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world's
altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial,
experiential, and affective approaches. Framed in the environmental
humanities, it is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the
mutually-embodied relations of climate, nature, culture, and place
in the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic. Innovation-driven, the book
offers multipolar clime case studies through the contributors'
historical findings, ethnographic documentations, and diverse
conceptualizations and applications of clime, an overlooked but
returning notion of place embodied with climate history, pattern,
and changes. The multipolar clime case studies in the book are
geared toward deeper, lively explorations and demonstrations of the
translatability, interchangeability, and complementarity between
the notions of clime and climate. "Multipolar" or "multipolarity"
in this book connotes not only the two polar regions and the
tectonically shaped highlands of the earth but also diversely
debated perspectives of climate studies in the broadest sense.
Contributors across the twelve chapters come from diverse fields of
social and natural sciences and humanities, and geographically
specialize respectively in the Himalayan, Andean, and Arctic
regions. The first comparative study of climate change in
altitudinal and latitudinal highlands, this will be an important
read for students, academics and researchers in environmental
humanities, anthropology, climate science, indigenous studies and
ecology.
This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world's
altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial,
experiential, and affective approaches. Framed in the environmental
humanities, it is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the
mutually-embodied relations of climate, nature, culture, and place
in the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic. Innovation-driven, the book
offers multipolar clime case studies through the contributors'
historical findings, ethnographic documentations, and diverse
conceptualizations and applications of clime, an overlooked but
returning notion of place embodied with climate history, pattern,
and changes. The multipolar clime case studies in the book are
geared toward deeper, lively explorations and demonstrations of the
translatability, interchangeability, and complementarity between
the notions of clime and climate. "Multipolar" or "multipolarity"
in this book connotes not only the two polar regions and the
tectonically shaped highlands of the earth but also diversely
debated perspectives of climate studies in the broadest sense.
Contributors across the twelve chapters come from diverse fields of
social and natural sciences and humanities, and geographically
specialize respectively in the Himalayan, Andean, and Arctic
regions. The first comparative study of climate change in
altitudinal and latitudinal highlands, this will be an important
read for students, academics and researchers in environmental
humanities, anthropology, climate science, indigenous studies and
ecology.
1) This book explores the historical corridor geography between
Yunnan, Burma and Bengal. 2) It looks at the fascinating
human-nonhuman nexus in the region. 3) This volume will be of
interest to departments of South Asian and Chinese history and
Border studies across the world.
1) This book explores the historical corridor geography between
Yunnan, Burma and Bengal. 2) It looks at the fascinating
human-nonhuman nexus in the region. 3) This volume will be of
interest to departments of South Asian and Chinese history and
Border studies across the world.
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic
Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability showcases how the
eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the
landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan
communities. Unique in scope, this book features case studies from
Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian
borderlands, many of which are documented by authors from
indigenous Himalayan communities. It explores three environmental
characteristics of modern Himalayas: the anthropogenic, the
indigenous, and the animist. Focusing on the sentient relations of
human-, animal-, and spirit-worlds with the earth in different
parts of the Himalayas, the authors present the complex meanings of
indigeneity, commoning and sustainability in the Anthropocene. In
doing so, they show the vital role that indigenous stories and
perspectives play in building new regional and planetary
environmental ethics for a sustainable future. Drawing on a wide
range of expert contributions from the natural sciences, social
sciences, and humanist disciplines, this book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of environmental humanities,
religion and ecology, indigenous knowledge and sustainable
development more broadly.
Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan
regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book
explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with
cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of
Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the
author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such
revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the
book demonstrates that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in
contemporary China is intimately bound with both the affirming and
negating forces of globalization, modernity, and politics of
religion, indigenous identity reclamation, and the market economy.
The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of Tibetan Buddhism
in relation to different religious, cultural, and political
constituencies of China. By recognizing the greater contexts of
China's politics of religion and of the global status of Tibetan
Buddhism, this book presents an argument that the revival of
Tibetan Buddhism is not an isolated event limited merely to Tibetan
regions; instead, it is a result of the intersection of both local
and global transformative changes. The book is a useful
contribution to students and scholars of Asian religion and Chinese
studies.
This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and
environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent
debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the
world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement
with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and
globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who
live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and
social margins. The book develops a comprehensive understanding of
contemporary China that goes beyond the tradition/ modernity
dichotomy, and illuminates the diversity of narratives and
worldviews that inform contemporary Chinese understandings of and
engagements with nature and environment.
This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and
environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent
debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the
world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement
with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and
globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who
live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and
social margins. The book develops a comprehensive understanding of
contemporary China that goes beyond the tradition/ modernity
dichotomy, and illuminates the diversity of narratives and
worldviews that inform contemporary Chinese understandings of and
engagements with nature and environment.
Based on the author's cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings,
and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and
Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests
itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is
interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination,
nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired
transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point
of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of
destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed
aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious
acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former
military officers' recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and
touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing
connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this
book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of
imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the
theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh
perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape
is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making,
identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.
Based on the author's cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings,
and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and
Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests
itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is
interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination,
nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired
transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point
of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of
destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed
aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious
acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former
military officers' recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and
touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing
connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this
book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of
imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the
theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh
perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape
is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making,
identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.
The societies in the Himalayan borderlands have undergone
wide-ranging transformations, as the territorial reconfiguration of
modern nation-states since the mid-twentieth century and the
presently increasing trans-Himalayan movements of people, goods and
capital, reshape the livelihoods of communities, pulling them into
global trends of modernisation and regional discourses of national
belonging. This book explores the changes to native senses of
place, the conception of border - simultaneously as limitations and
opportunities - and what the authors call "affective boundaries,"
"livelihood reconstruction," and "trans-Himalayan modernities." It
addresses changing social, political, and environmental conditions
that acknowledge growing external connectivity even as it
emphasises the importance of place.
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