M Saxer
Biographic Data
| ID | 38259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Saxer |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Saxer |
| SIGNATURE | SAXER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1861-605X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness
Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticism in Tibet. At stake is a fundamental (re-)manufacturing of Tibetan medi…
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as two interrelated modes in which an entity is, or more pre…
Provisions for remoteness: Cutting connections and forging ties in the Tajik Pamirs
How does remoteness emerge from the very connections envisioned to unmake it? And how do connections arise from remoteness? In this article, I address these questions by taking remoteness and connectivity not as opposites but as entangled forces that condition each other. To explore this evolving nexus, I focus on provisions: the notion of provision denotes, at once, a foresight or visions of a better future, a rule or law, and supplies coming in…
The return of remoteness: Insecurity, isolation and connectivity in the new world disorder
Remoteness has returned to world politics. Instead of the flat world’ once proclaimed by leading liberal voices, the world map today looks more rugged and uneven than it has in a long time. While some areas are smoothly connected to global capital and cultural flows, others are becoming more marginalised and ‘distant’, at least from the viewpoint of global centres of power. In this introduction, we build an analytical approach to remoteness as a …
Presence without Encounters: Pending Futures and the Chinese Non(engagement) in the Tajik Pamirs
China’s presence in the Tajik Pamirs is a paradox. While Chinese capital, geopolitical interests, and grandiose plans for new Silk Roads shape ambitions and fears, actual encounters with Chinese business people, engineers, or tourists remain rare and brief. In this context, people in the Pamirs find themselves waiting for pending futures conjured up in relation to China. Considering a future free economic zone, China trade across the Kulma Pass, …
New Roads, Old Trades: Neighbouring China in Nepal
The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders
1 Apart from the Friendship Highway, at least half a dozen roads now reach the Nepal border or end very close to it.Four of them extend into Nepali territory, and two of them cross the Himalayan range.In the east, one road leads from Sakya to the upper Arun valley and almost down to the border at Kimathanka.A branch of this road leads to Riwu and is motorable almost
Re-Fusing Ethnicity and Religion: An Experiment on Tibetan Grounds
The relation between ethnicity and religion has had a troubled history in the People's Republic of China. Conflating religious practice with ethnic culture is considered to carry the risk of breeding “splittism” – especially in Tibet and Xinjiang. While in the post-Mao era the outright hostility against religion has given way to a religious revival, keeping religion and (nationality) politics separate has remained a major concern for the Chinese …
The Moral Economy of Cultural Identity: Tibet, Cultural Survival, and the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage
Au Tibet, alors que le Dalai Lama denonce un « genocide culturel » en cours, le Parti d’etat chinois souligne ses efforts de sauvegarde et de promotion du patrimoine culturel tibetain. Partant de ces revendications conflictuelles relatives a la culture tibetaine, l’auteur montre que, au-dela des differentes significations de la notion de culture que ces revendications adoptent et des differents agendas qu’elle sert, ces discours se basent sur une…
A Goat's Head on a Sheep's Body? Manufacturing Good Practices for Tibetan Medicine
The production of Tibetan pharmaceuticals underwent a far-reaching transformation over the past decade. The introduction of good manufacturing practices (GMP) marked the beginning of rapid industrialization: new factories were built, and the companies re-oriented themselves to the requirements of the market. While officially regarded a great success, many doctors and pharmacists see GMP as fundamentally incompatible with traditional production me…
Herbs and Traders in Transit: Border Regimes and the Contemporary Trans-Himalayan Trade in Tibetan Medicinal Plants
This article discusses the contemporary cross-border trade in medicinal plants between Nepal and Tibet. As Tibetan pharmacy extensively relies on raw materials not native to Tibet, long-distance trade in medicinal materials is not a new phenomenon. However, with the recent creation of a Tibetan medicine industry in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the increasing demand for herbs from India and Nepal, the contemporary herb trade is facing …
The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders
1 Apart from the Friendship Highway, at least half a dozen roads now reach the Nepal border or end very close to it.Four of them extend into Nepali territory, and two of them cross the Himalayan range.In the east, one road leads from Sakya to the upper Arun valley and almost down to the border at Kimathanka.A branch of this road leads to Riwu and is motorable almost
The Moral Economy of Cultural Identity: Tibet, Cultural Survival, and the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage
Au Tibet, alors que le Dalai Lama denonce un « genocide culturel » en cours, le Parti d’etat chinois souligne ses efforts de sauvegarde et de promotion du patrimoine culturel tibetain. Partant de ces revendications conflictuelles relatives a la culture tibetaine, l’auteur montre que, au-dela des differentes significations de la notion de culture que ces revendications adoptent et des differents agendas qu’elle sert, ces discours se basent sur une…
A Goat's Head on a Sheep's Body? Manufacturing Good Practices for Tibetan Medicine
The production of Tibetan pharmaceuticals underwent a far-reaching transformation over the past decade. The introduction of good manufacturing practices (GMP) marked the beginning of rapid industrialization: new factories were built, and the companies re-oriented themselves to the requirements of the market. While officially regarded a great success, many doctors and pharmacists see GMP as fundamentally incompatible with traditional production me…
Presence without Encounters: Pending Futures and the Chinese Non(engagement) in the Tajik Pamirs
China’s presence in the Tajik Pamirs is a paradox. While Chinese capital, geopolitical interests, and grandiose plans for new Silk Roads shape ambitions and fears, actual encounters with Chinese business people, engineers, or tourists remain rare and brief. In this context, people in the Pamirs find themselves waiting for pending futures conjured up in relation to China. Considering a future free economic zone, China trade across the Kulma Pass, …
Re-Fusing Ethnicity and Religion: An Experiment on Tibetan Grounds
The relation between ethnicity and religion has had a troubled history in the People's Republic of China. Conflating religious practice with ethnic culture is considered to carry the risk of breeding “splittism” – especially in Tibet and Xinjiang. While in the post-Mao era the outright hostility against religion has given way to a religious revival, keeping religion and (nationality) politics separate has remained a major concern for the Chinese …
Herbs and Traders in Transit: Border Regimes and the Contemporary Trans-Himalayan Trade in Tibetan Medicinal Plants
This article discusses the contemporary cross-border trade in medicinal plants between Nepal and Tibet. As Tibetan pharmacy extensively relies on raw materials not native to Tibet, long-distance trade in medicinal materials is not a new phenomenon. However, with the recent creation of a Tibetan medicine industry in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the increasing demand for herbs from India and Nepal, the contemporary herb trade is facing …
The Moral Economy of Cultural Identity: Tibet, Cultural Survival, and the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage
Au Tibet, alors que le Dalai Lama denonce un « genocide culturel » en cours, le Parti d’etat chinois souligne ses efforts de sauvegarde et de promotion du patrimoine culturel tibetain. Partant de ces revendications conflictuelles relatives a la culture tibetaine, l’auteur montre que, au-dela des differentes significations de la notion de culture que ces revendications adoptent et des differents agendas qu’elle sert, ces discours se basent sur une…
A Goat's Head on a Sheep's Body? Manufacturing Good Practices for Tibetan Medicine
The production of Tibetan pharmaceuticals underwent a far-reaching transformation over the past decade. The introduction of good manufacturing practices (GMP) marked the beginning of rapid industrialization: new factories were built, and the companies re-oriented themselves to the requirements of the market. While officially regarded a great success, many doctors and pharmacists see GMP as fundamentally incompatible with traditional production me…
Re-Fusing Ethnicity and Religion: An Experiment on Tibetan Grounds
The relation between ethnicity and religion has had a troubled history in the People's Republic of China. Conflating religious practice with ethnic culture is considered to carry the risk of breeding “splittism” – especially in Tibet and Xinjiang. While in the post-Mao era the outright hostility against religion has given way to a religious revival, keeping religion and (nationality) politics separate has remained a major concern for the Chinese …
New Roads, Old Trades: Neighbouring China in Nepal
The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders
1 Apart from the Friendship Highway, at least half a dozen roads now reach the Nepal border or end very close to it.Four of them extend into Nepali territory, and two of them cross the Himalayan range.In the east, one road leads from Sakya to the upper Arun valley and almost down to the border at Kimathanka.A branch of this road leads to Riwu and is motorable almost
Presence without Encounters: Pending Futures and the Chinese Non(engagement) in the Tajik Pamirs
China’s presence in the Tajik Pamirs is a paradox. While Chinese capital, geopolitical interests, and grandiose plans for new Silk Roads shape ambitions and fears, actual encounters with Chinese business people, engineers, or tourists remain rare and brief. In this context, people in the Pamirs find themselves waiting for pending futures conjured up in relation to China. Considering a future free economic zone, China trade across the Kulma Pass, …
Provisions for remoteness: Cutting connections and forging ties in the Tajik Pamirs
How does remoteness emerge from the very connections envisioned to unmake it? And how do connections arise from remoteness? In this article, I address these questions by taking remoteness and connectivity not as opposites but as entangled forces that condition each other. To explore this evolving nexus, I focus on provisions: the notion of provision denotes, at once, a foresight or visions of a better future, a rule or law, and supplies coming in…
The return of remoteness: Insecurity, isolation and connectivity in the new world disorder
Remoteness has returned to world politics. Instead of the flat world’ once proclaimed by leading liberal voices, the world map today looks more rugged and uneven than it has in a long time. While some areas are smoothly connected to global capital and cultural flows, others are becoming more marginalised and ‘distant’, at least from the viewpoint of global centres of power. In this introduction, we build an analytical approach to remoteness as a …
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as two interrelated modes in which an entity is, or more pre…
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness
Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticism in Tibet. At stake is a fundamental (re-)manufacturing of Tibetan medi…
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