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Tibetan communities in Nepal under the international policy of China
- 1.0578052 - OÚ 2024 eng A - Abstract
Ptáčková, Jarmila
Tibetan communities in Nepal under the international policy of China.
[Ethnicity and National Identity-Building in Modern China in International Contexts. Taipei, 29.11.2023-30.11.2023]
Method of presentation: Přednáška
URL events: https://www1.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/en/Bulletin/Events/2223/Detail
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) LQ300211901
Program: Prémie Lumina quaeruntur
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
OECD category: Political science
Areas situated along the contemporary border between China and Nepal are historically and culturally connected to the region of Tibet. Although they are citizens of Nepal, given through the landscape conditions and poor infrastructural development on the Nepali side as well as their shared language and cultural background and established livelihood ties with the territories in the north, up until the present day, the peoples inhabiting the Nepali side of the Himalayas depend on their connection with the Tibetan territory rather than on those with central Nepal. Although feeling affiliated to both sides, for various political, social and cultural reasons, these people certainly do not belong to China, but hold a particular position also within Nepali social structure. Their perception of identity reflects this existence between two different systems.
With China proceeding with its consolidation of border control and political pressure on one side and Nepal proceeding with infrastructural development on the other, the defined and felt identities of the Himalayan people shift and gain multiple layers.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349642
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