Montag
12
JUN

13.00 Uhr

Tibetan Women-in-Exile in India: Construction of the Idea of the Tibetan Nation and Contributions to Tibetan Nationalism

Dr. Amrita Saikia (Department of Sociology, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, India)

Academic research focused on Tibetan women-in-exile is rare. Also, very few existing studies explore the perspectives of Tibetan women on the Tibetan nation and their contributions to Tibetan nationalism. Therefore, considering this gap in the literature, this paper explores the question of the Tibetan nation from the perspectives of Tibetan women-in-exile and seeks to understand their contributions to Tibetan nationalism. The paper draws from qualitative interviews conducted with Tibetan women in Dharamsala. The findings indicate that as agents and symbols of nationalism, educated Tibetan women-in-exile express ambivalence in their ideas of Tibetan women’s contributions to Tibetan nationalism. Their narratives help us expand our understanding of Tibetan nationalism and reveal how women as active agents of nationalism contribute to the Tibetan movement. At the same time, the paper argues, the Tibetan women-in-exile have not escaped the symbolism of nationalism attributed to them by the larger Tibetan society.

Zur Person:
Amrita Saikia completed her PhD at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her thesis concerned the Tibetan women-in-exile in India. She was engaged as a Guest Lecturer at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, India, in 2022. Currently, she is teaching as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, India. Amrita’s research interests broadly include conflict, peace and gender; refugees; social perspectives of disasters; Northeast India, among others.

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https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/upyt-pmtv-ujq4-zw79

Veranstalter

Prof. Dr. Anja Senz, Institut für Sinologie

Homepage Veranstalter

https://ostasien-aktuell.uni-heidelberg.de

Kontakt

Ostasien Aktuell

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https://ostasien-aktuell.uni-heidelberg.de

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