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Rehearsing the State

The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

McConnell, Fiona

RGS-IBG Book Series

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1. Auflage März 2016
240 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-118-66123-9
John Wiley & Sons

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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. Chapters bring critical theories of the state into dialogue with geographies of temporality to develop the idea of rehearsal through the exploration of spaces, roles, scripts, and audiences in the performance of exile statecraft.

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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

List of Figures viii

Series Editors' Preface ix

Acknowledgements x

Note on Transliteration xiii

1 Introduction 1

2 Rethinking the (Non)state: Time/ Space/ Performance 17

3 Setting the Scene: Contested Narratives of Tibetan Statehood 40

4 Rehearsal Spaces: Material and Symbolic Roles of Exile Tibetan Settlements 61

5 Playwright and Cast: Crafting Legitimacy in Exile 92

6 Scripting the State: Constructing a Population, Welfare State and Citizenship in Exile 116

7 Audiences of Statecraft: Negotiating Hospitality and Performing Diplomacy 145

8 Conclusion: Rehearsing Stateness 171

References 190

Index 216
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Political Geography (author on the editorial board)

Geopolitics (author on the editorial board)

Transactions of the IBG

Contemporary South Asia

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Antipode

Annals of the AAG

The Journal of Asian Studies

Geoforum

Geografiska Annaler

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Fiona McConnell is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford. She is co-editor of Geographies of Peace (2014) and Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics (forthcoming), and sits on the Board of Directors of the Tibet Justice Centre.

F. McConnell, University of Oxford, UK