Ruth Gamble
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 706605 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ruth Gamble |
| PRENOMES | Ruth |
| SOBRENOME | Gamble |
| ASSINATURA | GAMBLE R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8230-5988 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Draining Lhasa
This article traces 1,500 years of human engagement with the water cycle of Kyisho, the floodplain surrounding Lhasa, Tibet. As successive states made Lhasa their capital, Kyisho’s residents and rulers had religious, political and technological imperatives to divide the plain into wet and dry zones. Early cultivators practised irrigation but avoided the sacred sites of lha lu (deities and spirits). The rulers who introduced Buddhism in the sevent…
Colonizing the Lu ’s Realm
This article argues that first the British, then the Indian, and especially the Chinese states extended their control over the upper Brahmaputra River’s waters in Tibet and the Himalaya, marginalizing Indigenous beliefs—particularly those regarding aquatic spirits (lu)—and establishing extractive aquaculture industries. The presence of two highland polities, Bhutan and Sikkim, and limited technology constrained British and Indian extraction. The …
Worldmaking on shifting ice
This article examines the parallel yet divergent histories of Indiaʼs and Chinaʼs Antarctic programmes, exploring their geopolitical, scientific, and cultural dimensions. Both nations, initially excluded from the Western-dominated Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), joined in the 1980s, marking a shift in their approach to the southern polar region. India, driven by post-colonial solidarity and environmental concerns, has focused on scientific researc…
Rivers of the Asian Highlands
Rivers of the Asian Highlands introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia’s eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputra’s highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu (upper Yangzi), which descends from the Tibetan Plateau’s east through the Hengduan Mountains. This book guides its readers through these two rivers’ physical, environmental, cultural, social, and…
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
Bordering Ladakh, Again
In August 2019, the Indian government dissolved the state of Jammu and Kashmir, designating its Northern region as the Union Territory of Ladakh. Two months later, it released a new Political Map of India on which Ladakh was drawn as one of India’s largest territories. Like most representations of territory on political maps, the claims made were simplified. India’s rendering did not acknowledge that Pakistan and China administered much of Ladakh…
Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers
For the past two decades, work across a range of fields, but particularly geography, has engaged 'critical hydropolitics' as a way to highlight not only the politics inherent in decisions about water, but also the foundational assumptions of more conventional hydropolitical analyses that tend to focus on conflicts and cooperation over water resources, with a heavy emphasis on 'the state' as the key actor and scale of analysis. In this article we …
Surviving Pemakö’s pluriverse
This article traces a multi-generation history of Kunga Tsomo’s family, from the early 1900s when her grandmother migrated to Pemakö in the eastern Himalaya until the twenty-first century. Grandmother’s journey to Pemakö was part of a larger Vajrayana Buddhist migration to “hidden lands” in the southern Himalaya. This movement is most often framed as a religious event, but also involved the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, including the Adi o…
Central Tibetan famines 1280-1400
From the late-1200s to the mid-1400s, the river valleys of Central Tibet experienced both droughts and political upheavals. This combination of inclement weather and administrative dysfunction led to a series of famines. Although the famines were noted at the time, they were later forgotten in Tibetan narratives, and this is the first time that they are the subject of historical study. In this article we analyse the historical narratives of famin…
The bus doesn’t stop for us”
This paper draws on song texts from two corpora of Syuba, a Southern Tibetic language of Nepal. The songs have rich, interlinking themes relevant to language, identity and the situated context of Syuba people. We draw upon the texts to illustrate themes of identity, relationship, language, development and space. This analysis is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach bringing together linguistic, anthropological and historical perspectives. Th…
Decolonizing Geology
Decolonizing geology was a discussion held on July 3, 2020, hosted by the New Earth Histories Research Program at the University of New South Wales. It was moderated by Adam Bobbette and included Ruth Gamble (La Trobe University), Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University), and Christopher Wilson (Flinders University). The discussion was about how researchers from different fields—history, earth sciences, and archeology—understand the relationship between geol…
Constructing an “Iron” Unity
In October 2018, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated a pet project, the “Statue of Unity”, in Gujarat, India. The world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity cost USD416.67 million to construct, and depicts India’s first deputy prime minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as the “Iron Man of India”, staring resolutely out over the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam. This article examines the meanings of the statue as a political projec…
International relations and the Himalaya
This article examines international relations (IR)'s approach to the Himalaya. We argue that the possibility of violent conflict over contested international borders is not the region's primary international challenge. Rather, slow violence inflicted by state-building and militarisation, intimately connected to geopolitical tensions, threaten the region's ecologies, cultures and languages. The Himalaya is home to three biodiversity hotspots and a…
Watersheds in watersheds
Humans have, by biological necessity, always lived in watersheds. This article provides an overview of humans' relationship to these watersheds as an introduction to a special issue of Thesis Eleven on watersheds. It describes the basic functioning of watersheds, how humans have always depended on them, and how they have slowly begun to manipulate them. Humans across the planet began by making strategic adjustments to water's downward flow to aid…
How dams climb mountains
The dam rush in the upper-Brahmaputra River basin and local, minority resistance to it are the result of complex geopolitical and parochial causes. India and China's competing claims for sovereignty over the watershed depend upon British and Qing Dynasty imperial precedents respectively. And the two nation-states have extended and enhanced their predecessors' claims on the area by continuing to erase local sovereignty, enclose the commons, and ex…
Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism
Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism examines how the third Karmapa hierarch, Rangjung Dorjé (1284–1339) transformed Buddhist belief about reincarnation into a Tibetan institution based on lineage. It surveys his life through the portal of his previously untranslated autobiographical stories and songs, which reveal the rudiments of the reincarnation tradition. They include Rangjung Dorjé’s synthesis of the first three Karmapas’ biographies and past-…
Between Kongpo and Xanadu
The final chapter begins with Rangjung Dorjé in retreat in Kongpo, southern Tibet. Because of his growing reputation, however, he is soon forced to return to central Tibet to mediate between a group of rebels and members of the ruling Mongol-Sakya alliance. In 1329, the Mongol emperor summonses him to the capitals. He eventually arrives in Dadu nearly two years later, during the short reign of Irinjibal (1326–1332, r. 1332), and witnesses the ent…
Into the Mountains
In chapter 7, at age eighteen, Rangjung Dorje takes full ordination and begins to travel. His first destinations are the Karmapas’ other two seats: the Karma and Kampo Nénang Monasteries. He spends time living in the forests around Karma Monastery; he is eventually welcomed there after helping to quell a forest fire that threatened retreatants and the monastery alike. His journey to Kampo Nénang is less successful, and he does not stay. Instead, …
Lifetimes
Chapter 1 describes the Karmapas’ multi-life tale and the construction of their narrative. It does this by outlining the life stories of the first two Karmapas and then describes how the second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi, Rangjung Dorje, and later storytellers retold their individuals’ tales as part of the grander Karmapa narrative. To contextualize this process, chapter 1 then looks at the broader tradition of Buddhist biography and the two primary g…
From Death to Childhood
Chapter 5 tells Rangjung Dorje’s version of his consciousness’s interlife journey from the second Karmapa’s death to his birth and childhood. It begins by analyzing his recollections of Karma Pakshi’s death in the Liberation Story of the In-between State , and his subsequent aborted attempt to enter the body of a nearby corpse. It then follows as he journeys to heaven and is convinced by a group of earth guardians to take rebirth as a human; he l…
Servant-like Lords and Heavenly Kings
Au moment du déclin du pouvoir de l’Empire Mongol au Tibet Central, au début du XIVe siècle, Jangchup Gyeltsen (Byang chub rgyal mtshan ; 1302-1364) devint le premier souverain tibétain autochtone à unifier la région après cinq cents ans. En tant que tel, Jangchup Gyeltsen joue donc un rôle fondamental dans l’histoire du Tibet et, ainsi que d’autres héros nationaux, ses représentations sont souvent récupérées dans les projets politiques et sociau…
International relations and the Himalaya
This article examines international relations (IR)'s approach to the Himalaya. We argue that the possibility of violent conflict over contested international borders is not the region's primary international challenge. Rather, slow violence inflicted by state-building and militarisation, intimately connected to geopolitical tensions, threaten the region's ecologies, cultures and languages. The Himalaya is home to three biodiversity hotspots and a…
How dams climb mountains
The dam rush in the upper-Brahmaputra River basin and local, minority resistance to it are the result of complex geopolitical and parochial causes. India and China's competing claims for sovereignty over the watershed depend upon British and Qing Dynasty imperial precedents respectively. And the two nation-states have extended and enhanced their predecessors' claims on the area by continuing to erase local sovereignty, enclose the commons, and ex…
Decolonizing Geology
Decolonizing geology was a discussion held on July 3, 2020, hosted by the New Earth Histories Research Program at the University of New South Wales. It was moderated by Adam Bobbette and included Ruth Gamble (La Trobe University), Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University), and Christopher Wilson (Flinders University). The discussion was about how researchers from different fields—history, earth sciences, and archeology—understand the relationship between geol…
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers
For the past two decades, work across a range of fields, but particularly geography, has engaged 'critical hydropolitics' as a way to highlight not only the politics inherent in decisions about water, but also the foundational assumptions of more conventional hydropolitical analyses that tend to focus on conflicts and cooperation over water resources, with a heavy emphasis on 'the state' as the key actor and scale of analysis. In this article we …
Surviving Pemakö’s pluriverse
This article traces a multi-generation history of Kunga Tsomo’s family, from the early 1900s when her grandmother migrated to Pemakö in the eastern Himalaya until the twenty-first century. Grandmother’s journey to Pemakö was part of a larger Vajrayana Buddhist migration to “hidden lands” in the southern Himalaya. This movement is most often framed as a religious event, but also involved the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, including the Adi o…
Watersheds in watersheds
Humans have, by biological necessity, always lived in watersheds. This article provides an overview of humans' relationship to these watersheds as an introduction to a special issue of Thesis Eleven on watersheds. It describes the basic functioning of watersheds, how humans have always depended on them, and how they have slowly begun to manipulate them. Humans across the planet began by making strategic adjustments to water's downward flow to aid…
Central Tibetan famines 1280-1400
From the late-1200s to the mid-1400s, the river valleys of Central Tibet experienced both droughts and political upheavals. This combination of inclement weather and administrative dysfunction led to a series of famines. Although the famines were noted at the time, they were later forgotten in Tibetan narratives, and this is the first time that they are the subject of historical study. In this article we analyse the historical narratives of famin…
The bus doesn’t stop for us”
This paper draws on song texts from two corpora of Syuba, a Southern Tibetic language of Nepal. The songs have rich, interlinking themes relevant to language, identity and the situated context of Syuba people. We draw upon the texts to illustrate themes of identity, relationship, language, development and space. This analysis is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach bringing together linguistic, anthropological and historical perspectives. Th…
Servant-like Lords and Heavenly Kings
Au moment du déclin du pouvoir de l’Empire Mongol au Tibet Central, au début du XIVe siècle, Jangchup Gyeltsen (Byang chub rgyal mtshan ; 1302-1364) devint le premier souverain tibétain autochtone à unifier la région après cinq cents ans. En tant que tel, Jangchup Gyeltsen joue donc un rôle fondamental dans l’histoire du Tibet et, ainsi que d’autres héros nationaux, ses représentations sont souvent récupérées dans les projets politiques et sociau…
Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism
Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism examines how the third Karmapa hierarch, Rangjung Dorjé (1284–1339) transformed Buddhist belief about reincarnation into a Tibetan institution based on lineage. It surveys his life through the portal of his previously untranslated autobiographical stories and songs, which reveal the rudiments of the reincarnation tradition. They include Rangjung Dorjé’s synthesis of the first three Karmapas’ biographies and past-…
Between Kongpo and Xanadu
The final chapter begins with Rangjung Dorjé in retreat in Kongpo, southern Tibet. Because of his growing reputation, however, he is soon forced to return to central Tibet to mediate between a group of rebels and members of the ruling Mongol-Sakya alliance. In 1329, the Mongol emperor summonses him to the capitals. He eventually arrives in Dadu nearly two years later, during the short reign of Irinjibal (1326–1332, r. 1332), and witnesses the ent…
Into the Mountains
In chapter 7, at age eighteen, Rangjung Dorje takes full ordination and begins to travel. His first destinations are the Karmapas’ other two seats: the Karma and Kampo Nénang Monasteries. He spends time living in the forests around Karma Monastery; he is eventually welcomed there after helping to quell a forest fire that threatened retreatants and the monastery alike. His journey to Kampo Nénang is less successful, and he does not stay. Instead, …
Lifetimes
Chapter 1 describes the Karmapas’ multi-life tale and the construction of their narrative. It does this by outlining the life stories of the first two Karmapas and then describes how the second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi, Rangjung Dorje, and later storytellers retold their individuals’ tales as part of the grander Karmapa narrative. To contextualize this process, chapter 1 then looks at the broader tradition of Buddhist biography and the two primary g…
From Death to Childhood
Chapter 5 tells Rangjung Dorje’s version of his consciousness’s interlife journey from the second Karmapa’s death to his birth and childhood. It begins by analyzing his recollections of Karma Pakshi’s death in the Liberation Story of the In-between State , and his subsequent aborted attempt to enter the body of a nearby corpse. It then follows as he journeys to heaven and is convinced by a group of earth guardians to take rebirth as a human; he l…
Watersheds in watersheds
Humans have, by biological necessity, always lived in watersheds. This article provides an overview of humans' relationship to these watersheds as an introduction to a special issue of Thesis Eleven on watersheds. It describes the basic functioning of watersheds, how humans have always depended on them, and how they have slowly begun to manipulate them. Humans across the planet began by making strategic adjustments to water's downward flow to aid…
How dams climb mountains
The dam rush in the upper-Brahmaputra River basin and local, minority resistance to it are the result of complex geopolitical and parochial causes. India and China's competing claims for sovereignty over the watershed depend upon British and Qing Dynasty imperial precedents respectively. And the two nation-states have extended and enhanced their predecessors' claims on the area by continuing to erase local sovereignty, enclose the commons, and ex…
Constructing an “Iron” Unity
In October 2018, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated a pet project, the “Statue of Unity”, in Gujarat, India. The world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity cost USD416.67 million to construct, and depicts India’s first deputy prime minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as the “Iron Man of India”, staring resolutely out over the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam. This article examines the meanings of the statue as a political projec…
International relations and the Himalaya
This article examines international relations (IR)'s approach to the Himalaya. We argue that the possibility of violent conflict over contested international borders is not the region's primary international challenge. Rather, slow violence inflicted by state-building and militarisation, intimately connected to geopolitical tensions, threaten the region's ecologies, cultures and languages. The Himalaya is home to three biodiversity hotspots and a…
The bus doesn’t stop for us”
This paper draws on song texts from two corpora of Syuba, a Southern Tibetic language of Nepal. The songs have rich, interlinking themes relevant to language, identity and the situated context of Syuba people. We draw upon the texts to illustrate themes of identity, relationship, language, development and space. This analysis is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach bringing together linguistic, anthropological and historical perspectives. Th…
Decolonizing Geology
Decolonizing geology was a discussion held on July 3, 2020, hosted by the New Earth Histories Research Program at the University of New South Wales. It was moderated by Adam Bobbette and included Ruth Gamble (La Trobe University), Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University), and Christopher Wilson (Flinders University). The discussion was about how researchers from different fields—history, earth sciences, and archeology—understand the relationship between geol…
Surviving Pemakö’s pluriverse
This article traces a multi-generation history of Kunga Tsomo’s family, from the early 1900s when her grandmother migrated to Pemakö in the eastern Himalaya until the twenty-first century. Grandmother’s journey to Pemakö was part of a larger Vajrayana Buddhist migration to “hidden lands” in the southern Himalaya. This movement is most often framed as a religious event, but also involved the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, including the Adi o…
Central Tibetan famines 1280-1400
From the late-1200s to the mid-1400s, the river valleys of Central Tibet experienced both droughts and political upheavals. This combination of inclement weather and administrative dysfunction led to a series of famines. Although the famines were noted at the time, they were later forgotten in Tibetan narratives, and this is the first time that they are the subject of historical study. In this article we analyse the historical narratives of famin…
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
Bordering Ladakh, Again
In August 2019, the Indian government dissolved the state of Jammu and Kashmir, designating its Northern region as the Union Territory of Ladakh. Two months later, it released a new Political Map of India on which Ladakh was drawn as one of India’s largest territories. Like most representations of territory on political maps, the claims made were simplified. India’s rendering did not acknowledge that Pakistan and China administered much of Ladakh…
Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers
For the past two decades, work across a range of fields, but particularly geography, has engaged 'critical hydropolitics' as a way to highlight not only the politics inherent in decisions about water, but also the foundational assumptions of more conventional hydropolitical analyses that tend to focus on conflicts and cooperation over water resources, with a heavy emphasis on 'the state' as the key actor and scale of analysis. In this article we …
Rivers of the Asian Highlands
Rivers of the Asian Highlands introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia’s eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputra’s highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu (upper Yangzi), which descends from the Tibetan Plateau’s east through the Hengduan Mountains. This book guides its readers through these two rivers’ physical, environmental, cultural, social, and…
Worldmaking on shifting ice
This article examines the parallel yet divergent histories of Indiaʼs and Chinaʼs Antarctic programmes, exploring their geopolitical, scientific, and cultural dimensions. Both nations, initially excluded from the Western-dominated Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), joined in the 1980s, marking a shift in their approach to the southern polar region. India, driven by post-colonial solidarity and environmental concerns, has focused on scientific researc…
Draining Lhasa
This article traces 1,500 years of human engagement with the water cycle of Kyisho, the floodplain surrounding Lhasa, Tibet. As successive states made Lhasa their capital, Kyisho’s residents and rulers had religious, political and technological imperatives to divide the plain into wet and dry zones. Early cultivators practised irrigation but avoided the sacred sites of lha lu (deities and spirits). The rulers who introduced Buddhism in the sevent…
Colonizing the Lu ’s Realm
This article argues that first the British, then the Indian, and especially the Chinese states extended their control over the upper Brahmaputra River’s waters in Tibet and the Himalaya, marginalizing Indigenous beliefs—particularly those regarding aquatic spirits (lu)—and establishing extractive aquaculture industries. The presence of two highland polities, Bhutan and Sikkim, and limited technology constrained British and Indian extraction. The …
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