Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands - Brossura

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9780295993584: Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
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ISBN 10: 0295993588 ISBN 13: 9780295993584
Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2014

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In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila — a place that previously had existed only in fiction — had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation, which have in turn attracted throngs of backpackers, environmentalists, and entrepreneurs who seek to experience, protect, and profit from the region’s landscapes.

Mapping Shangrila advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, and resistance, examining how they are reshaping cultural economies, political ecologies of resource use, subjectivities, and interethnic relations. Chapters illuminate topics such as the role of Han and Tibetan literary representations of border landscapes in the formation of ethnic identities; the remaking of Chinese national geographic imaginaries through tourism in the Yading Nature Reserve; the role of The Nature Conservancy and other transnational environmental organizations in struggles over culture and environmental governance; the way in which matsutake mushroom and caterpillar fungus commodity chains are reshaping montane landscapes; and contestations over the changing roles of mountain deities and their mediums as both interact with increasingly intensive nature conservation and state-sponsored capitalism.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Emily T. Yeh is associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author ofTaming Tibet. Chris Coggins is professor of geography and Asian studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock and the author ofThe Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China. Contributors include Michael Hathaway, Travis Klingberg, Charlene E. Makley, Bob Moseley, Renie Mullen, Michelle Olsgard Stewart, Chris Vasantkumar, Li-hua Ying, John Aloysius Zinda, and Gesang Zeren.

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Editore
Univ of Washington Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2014
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0295993588
ISBN 13 
9780295993584
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
332
Redattore
Yeh Emily T., Coggins Chris
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10:  029599357X ISBN 13:  9780295993577
Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2014
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