Facing globalization in the Himalayas : belonging and the politics of the self /

This book explores the complex relationships between belonging and globalization in the contemporary Himalayan world and beyond. Over the last decades, the interrelations at local, national, and global scales have intensified in historically unprecedented forms and intensity. At the same time, homog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Toffin, Gérard (Editor ), Pfaff-Czarnecka, Joanna (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2014.
Colección:Governance, conflict and civic action series ; v. 5.
Temas:
Ethnic groups > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Group identity > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Nationalism > Himalaya Mountains Region.
National characteristics.
Globalization > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Groupes ethniques > Himālaya.
Identité collective > Himālaya.
Nationalisme > Himālaya.
Caractéristiques nationales.
Mondialisation > Himālaya.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic groups.
Ethnic relations.
Globalization.
Group identity.
Nationalism.
Himalaya Mountains Region > Ethnic relations.
Himālaya > Relations interethniques.
Himalaya Mountains Region.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; 1
  • Introduction; PART I
  • SHIFTING HORIZONS OF BELONGING; 2- Improbable Globalization; 3
  • Circular Lives; 4
  • Being a Ladakhi, Playing the Nomad; PART II
  • MIGRANT EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH ASIA AND BEYOND; 5
  • Migration, Marginality, and Modernity; 6
  • Rights and a Sense of Belonging; 7
  • Geographical, Cultural, and Professional Belonging of Nepalese Migrants in India and Qatar; PART III- CREATING TRANSNATIONAL BELONGING; 8
  • Belonging and Solitude among Nepali Nurses in Great Britain; 9
  • Culture on Display; 10
  • Being and Belonging; 11
  • Global Gurungs.
  • PART IV
  • GLOBALITY AND ACTIVIST EXPERIENCE12
  • Buddhist Activism, New Sanghas, andthe Politics of Belonging among Some Tharuand Magar Communities of Southern Nepal*; 13
  • Power Projects, Protests, and Problematicsof Belonging in Dzongu, Sikkim*; 14
  • Weepingsikkim.blogspot.com; PART V
  • NATIONAL RECONFIGURATIONS; 16
  • Who Belongs to Tibet?; 17- The Last Himalayan Monarchies; Glossary; About the Editors and Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index.

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