Rehearsing the State E-Book

Fiona McConnell

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 521

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Rehearsing the State presents a comprehensive investigation of the institutions, performances, and actors through which the Tibetan Government-in-Exile is rehearsing statecraft. McConnell offers new insights into how communities officially excluded from formal state politics enact hoped-for futures and seek legitimacy in the present.

• Offers timely and original insights into exile Tibetan politics based on detailed qualitative research in Tibetan communities in India
• Advances existing debates in political geography by bringing ideas of stateness and statecraft into dialogue with geographies of temporality
• Explores the provisional and pedagogical dimensions of state practices, adding weight to assertions that states are in a continual situation of emergence
• Makes a significant contribution to critical state theory

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Rehearsing the State

The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

Fiona McConnell

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Contents

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Chapter One: Introduction

The Case of Exile Tibet

The State as Aspirational: Thinking Across State Spaces, Temporalities and Performances

Researching a State-That-is-Not-a-State

Narrating the Rehearsal of Stateness

The Politics of Researching Exile Tibet

Endnotes

Chapter Two: Rethinking the (Non)State: Time/Space/Performance

The State of Statelessness

Out-of-Place and Out-of-Time: The Spatialities and Temporalities of Exile

‘Unbundling’ Sovereignty, Territory and the State

State(less)ness

Performing and Rehearsing the State

Endnotes

Chapter Three: Setting the Scene: Contested Narratives of Tibetan Statehood

Prelude I. Pre-modern Tibet as a ‘Stateless Society’?

Prelude II. Tibet and its Neighbours: Contested Narratives of Territory and Authority

De Facto Statehood Claimed (1911–1949)…

…De Facto Statehood Lost (1949–1959)

Introducing the Exile Cast and Plot

Past to Present: Continuities and Disjunctures

Endnotes

Chapter Four: Rehearsal Spaces: Material and Symbolic Roles of Exile Tibetan Settlements

The Spatiality of ‘Tibet’ in Exile

Rehearsing State-like Governance

Limits to the Settlements as ‘State Spaces’

Rehearsing Tibetanness

Conclusion: Territorialising Exile Governance

Endnotes

Chapter Five: Playwright and Cast: Crafting Legitimacy in Exile

The Dalai Lama as Playwright: Charismatic Leader and Democratic Visionary

Rational-Legal Authority and the Construction of a Bureaucracy in Exile

Professionalising the Exile Tibetan Bureaucracy

Conclusion: Constructing Legitimacy Through Crafting a ‘State’

Endnotes

Chapter Six: Scripting the State: Constructing a Population, Welfare State and Citizenship in Exile

Scripting and Managing a Population-in-Waiting

Welfare Provision and Delineating a ‘Civil Society’ and ‘Economy’ in Exile

Collective Scripts of Citizenship and Refugeehood

Conclusion: Believing in State-like Scripts

Endnotes

Chapter Seven: Audiences of Statecraft: Negotiating Hospitality and Performing Diplomacy

Being Exiled ‘Guests’ in a Host State

Performing Diplomacy and ‘Good Governance’ for Western Audiences

Engaging the Occupying State: the Challenge of China

Conclusion: Ambivalent Stateness?

Endnotes

Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Rehearsing Stateness

Uncertain Futures in Exile: Rehearsal Unravelling?

The Contingency of Stateness

The Creativity of Liminality

The State (Idea) as Aspirational

Rehearsing Geopolitical Futures: Ambivalence and Openness

Endnotes

References

Index

EULA

List of Illustrations

Chapter 3

Figure 3.1 Map of Tibet showing traditional Tibetan regions and contemporary Chinese provinces. (Created by A. Allen, 2015.)

Chapter 4

Figure 4.1 Map of Tibetan settlements in India where research was undertaken. (Compiled by E. Oliver.)

Figure 4.2 Chortens, Lugsum-Samdupling. (Photo by author.)

Figure 4.3 Large prayer-wheel, Dharamsala. (Photo by author.)

Chapter 5

Figure 4 Cartoon from the

Tibetan Review

, January 1992, p. 11.

Chapter 6

Figure 5 CTA: The problem tree, 2004–2007. (Source: Planning Commission, Central Tibetan Administration.)

Guide

Cover

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