Who is Lhakpa Sherpa?' circulating subjectivities within the global/local terrain of Himalayan mountaineering

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3977227
AutoresSusan Frohlick (0000-0002-4511-826X, University of Manitoba, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen5
Número2
Páginas195-212
Fecha de publicación2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649360410001690213
OpenAlexW2024879685
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas16

This paper traces different formations of subjectivities negotiated within the transnational circuits of mountaineering media and cultural production. Drawing from ethnographic research in Nepal and Canada in 2000, I examine various representations of the second Nepali woman to climb Everest in order to demonstrate the linkages between scales and geographies of media narratives and subjectivities. Appearing in newspapers, a research interview with myself (a foreign researcher) and on the Internet, these differently scaled narratives render Lhakpa Sherpa in terms of local and global subjectivities, which shift after her successful climb, and are complex and dynamic. I engage with feminist critiques of globalization to encourage a view of globalization as enacted rather than merely resisted and to analyse 'the global' and 'the local' as inseparable and contingent and productive of particular gendered subjectivities. The disjuncture between her popularity in Nepal and the lack of knowledge about her in Canada reveals the uneven processes of globalization wherein Lhakpa Sherpa struggles against gender and racial politics in mountaineering at the same time that she is privileged to climb as a sponsored mountaineer, a new subjectivity for a Nepali mountaineer

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Globalization · Media studies · Mountaineering · Narrative · Nepali · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Sociology · Subjectivity · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society