Dan Smyer Yü
Biographic Data
| ID | 105565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Smyer Yü |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan Smyer |
| FAMILY NAME | Yü |
| SIGNATURE | YÜ D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2781-5379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From New Agrarianism to Rewilding Agriculture in the Anthropocene: Syntropic Ecospirituality of Family Farming in California
Agriculture is hypothesized by climate scientists as being the earliest contributor to the emergence of the Anthropocene—the human-induced geological epoch—due to related greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental effects of industrial agriculture since the eighteenth century support this hypothesis; however, when agriculture is understood in the context of family- and community-based farming in culturally and geographically specific places arou…
Buddhist Faces of Indigenous Knowledge in Highland Asia: Rethinking the Roots of Buddhist Environmentalism
This article is written as part of the ongoing multidisciplinary inquiry into how ecologically focused Buddhism is and whether or not the faith-based "Buddhist ecology" and the natural scientifically conceived discipline of ecology-which studies the relation of organisms to their physical environments-communicate well and are mutually complementary with each other. It addresses these questions by linking regionally specific Buddhist traditions wi…
Geo-economics of China's rare earths production: Concurrent green transition and environmental vulnerability
Freeing Animals: Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Environmentalism and Ecological Challenges
Buddhist environmentalism in its varieties across the world is an integral part of the global environmental discourse centered on exploring new planetary ethics for sustainable futures. While recognizing the Buddhist role in global environmental movements, the author of this article proposes that the observable strength of Buddhist environmentalism is in local and global environmental advocacy grounded in the Buddhist ethics of interdependence, e…
Rare Earth Elements, Global Inequalities, and the ‘Just Transition’
About Just
Researching Life Stories of the Myanmar-China Jadeite Trade
Jadeite is one of the most valuable gemstones in the world, yet its value is created largely by its importance within the cultural region of eastern Asia, particularly in China. The most valuable form is mined outside this zone, in northern Myanmar, in what is identified as South East Asia. As the stone moves across borders and into different cultural and linguistic landscapes, its meanings shift. What can storytelling expressed through the life …
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability
China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
James Miller’s China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future is an integral part of his ongoing work in religion and ecology, an emerging but rapidly expanding interdiscipli
Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities
Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics
Based on the author's cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of …
Earthwork, home-making and eco-aesthetics among Amdo Tibetans
This chapter explores eco-aesthetic meanings of the intersections of natural landscape, religious practices and home-making in Sambha, a Tibetan farming village nestled on an alluvial fan of a dried tributary of a large river. In the context of the Tibetan landscape, this earth subjectivity is inextricably intertwined and interwoven with collective human subjectivity rested upon human social activities. A human mindscape is in no way separated fr…
Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
Introduction Dan Smyer Yu, James Miller and Peter van der Veer Part 1: Ecology and the Classics 1. Ecology and the Classics Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim 2. Conceptualization of Earth and Land in Classical Chinese Texts Deborah Sommer 3. The Great Virtue of Heaven and Earth: Deep Ecology in the Yijing Joseph A. Adler 4. Hard-Hearted and Soft-Hearted Ecologies: A Rereading of Daoist and Confucian Classics Chen Xia, Peng Guoxiang and James Mille…
Pema Tseden's Transnational Cinema: Screening a Buddhist Landscape of Tibet
The emergence of independent Tibetan filmmakers in China only began in the twenty-first century; however, their productions are already being premiered and are winning awards at international film festivals. In their productions the cinematic images of Tibetan cultural landscapes are markedly different from their Western and Chinese counterparts. Both the verisimilitude and believability of their scenes and characters point to the inextricability…
The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment
Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work…
Becoming Conversant by Learning to Listen: A Reading of T. M. Luhrmann’s When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
Subaltern placiality in modern Tibet: Critical discourses in the works of Shogdong
I attempt to write this article as a pathology of modernity in connection with how place, memory, and subalternity are expressed by urban Tibetans in China. The literary works of Shogdong, a contemporary Tibetan writer and cultural critic, are the focus of my interpretation of the sociopolitical, religious, and psychological meanings of an anti-traditional discourse among urban Tibetans. My pathologizing this intra-Tibetan discourse is meant to d…
A Review of Carolyn Chen’s Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience
Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context
Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context
Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics
Based on the author's cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of …
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability
Freeing Animals: Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Environmentalism and Ecological Challenges
Buddhist environmentalism in its varieties across the world is an integral part of the global environmental discourse centered on exploring new planetary ethics for sustainable futures. While recognizing the Buddhist role in global environmental movements, the author of this article proposes that the observable strength of Buddhist environmentalism is in local and global environmental advocacy grounded in the Buddhist ethics of interdependence, e…
Geo-economics of China's rare earths production: Concurrent green transition and environmental vulnerability
Subaltern placiality in modern Tibet: Critical discourses in the works of Shogdong
I attempt to write this article as a pathology of modernity in connection with how place, memory, and subalternity are expressed by urban Tibetans in China. The literary works of Shogdong, a contemporary Tibetan writer and cultural critic, are the focus of my interpretation of the sociopolitical, religious, and psychological meanings of an anti-traditional discourse among urban Tibetans. My pathologizing this intra-Tibetan discourse is meant to d…
Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context
A Review of Carolyn Chen’s Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience
The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment
Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work…
Becoming Conversant by Learning to Listen: A Reading of T. M. Luhrmann’s When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
Subaltern placiality in modern Tibet: Critical discourses in the works of Shogdong
I attempt to write this article as a pathology of modernity in connection with how place, memory, and subalternity are expressed by urban Tibetans in China. The literary works of Shogdong, a contemporary Tibetan writer and cultural critic, are the focus of my interpretation of the sociopolitical, religious, and psychological meanings of an anti-traditional discourse among urban Tibetans. My pathologizing this intra-Tibetan discourse is meant to d…
Earthwork, home-making and eco-aesthetics among Amdo Tibetans
This chapter explores eco-aesthetic meanings of the intersections of natural landscape, religious practices and home-making in Sambha, a Tibetan farming village nestled on an alluvial fan of a dried tributary of a large river. In the context of the Tibetan landscape, this earth subjectivity is inextricably intertwined and interwoven with collective human subjectivity rested upon human social activities. A human mindscape is in no way separated fr…
Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
Introduction Dan Smyer Yu, James Miller and Peter van der Veer Part 1: Ecology and the Classics 1. Ecology and the Classics Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim 2. Conceptualization of Earth and Land in Classical Chinese Texts Deborah Sommer 3. The Great Virtue of Heaven and Earth: Deep Ecology in the Yijing Joseph A. Adler 4. Hard-Hearted and Soft-Hearted Ecologies: A Rereading of Daoist and Confucian Classics Chen Xia, Peng Guoxiang and James Mille…
Pema Tseden's Transnational Cinema: Screening a Buddhist Landscape of Tibet
The emergence of independent Tibetan filmmakers in China only began in the twenty-first century; however, their productions are already being premiered and are winning awards at international film festivals. In their productions the cinematic images of Tibetan cultural landscapes are markedly different from their Western and Chinese counterparts. Both the verisimilitude and believability of their scenes and characters point to the inextricability…
Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics
Based on the author's cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of …
Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities
China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
James Miller’s China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future is an integral part of his ongoing work in religion and ecology, an emerging but rapidly expanding interdiscipli
Researching Life Stories of the Myanmar-China Jadeite Trade
Jadeite is one of the most valuable gemstones in the world, yet its value is created largely by its importance within the cultural region of eastern Asia, particularly in China. The most valuable form is mined outside this zone, in northern Myanmar, in what is identified as South East Asia. As the stone moves across borders and into different cultural and linguistic landscapes, its meanings shift. What can storytelling expressed through the life …
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability
Rare Earth Elements, Global Inequalities, and the ‘Just Transition’
About Just
Freeing Animals: Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Environmentalism and Ecological Challenges
Buddhist environmentalism in its varieties across the world is an integral part of the global environmental discourse centered on exploring new planetary ethics for sustainable futures. While recognizing the Buddhist role in global environmental movements, the author of this article proposes that the observable strength of Buddhist environmentalism is in local and global environmental advocacy grounded in the Buddhist ethics of interdependence, e…
Geo-economics of China's rare earths production: Concurrent green transition and environmental vulnerability
Buddhist Faces of Indigenous Knowledge in Highland Asia: Rethinking the Roots of Buddhist Environmentalism
This article is written as part of the ongoing multidisciplinary inquiry into how ecologically focused Buddhism is and whether or not the faith-based "Buddhist ecology" and the natural scientifically conceived discipline of ecology-which studies the relation of organisms to their physical environments-communicate well and are mutually complementary with each other. It addresses these questions by linking regionally specific Buddhist traditions wi…
From New Agrarianism to Rewilding Agriculture in the Anthropocene: Syntropic Ecospirituality of Family Farming in California
Agriculture is hypothesized by climate scientists as being the earliest contributor to the emergence of the Anthropocene—the human-induced geological epoch—due to related greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental effects of industrial agriculture since the eighteenth century support this hypothesis; however, when agriculture is understood in the context of family- and community-based farming in culturally and geographically specific places arou…
Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · China (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works)