Trine Brox
Biographic Data
| ID | 948015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trine Brox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trine |
| FAMILY NAME | Brox |
| SIGNATURE | BROX T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1158-7826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Waste Ethnographies: An Introduction
Any attempt to address the global waste crisis requires an understanding of waste as both a material reality and a social construct embedded in power relations, social hierarchies, infrastructures and beliefs. As the waste ethnographies in this issue illustrate, ethnography can add important perspectives on waste by exploring how waste is experienced, imagined and materially enacted in particular times and places, rather than treating it as a fix…
When to Waste: Timing and Discarding in the Indian Himalayas
This article contributes to waste and discard studies ethnographic insights into waste as a public problem, highlighting the question of when rather than where to place waste. It presents the waste challenges confronting a town nestled in the Indian Himalayas as it has witnessed substantial population growth and burgeoning tourism, resulting in increased consumption and a massive amount of waste. Based upon collaborative ethnographic research in …
Tibetan Remediations: Wax Doubles of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok
This article contributes to the study of material religion a discussion on the notion of remediation, by exploring the affordances of the waxwork as a new medium in the Tibetan Buddhist field. It shows how Tibetan waxworks are remediations in two senses of the word. Like the new media forms explored in other studies, they reference older media, blending the popular hyperreal waxwork that we know from Madame Tussauds and the well-established relig…
Tibetan Buddhism in the Age of Waste
Taking examples from lived Tibetan Buddhism, this article explores the role of religion in the generation, sorting, and handling of waste that is produced or ends up in the religious field. Rather than assuming that waste is the negative and worthless endpoint of consumption, it introduces the concepts of “waste imaginaries” and “waste trajectories” to examine the importance of religion in the relationship between how and why things come to be de…
What is the value of a Tibetan prayer wheel
With Buddhism’s integration into the global market economy, the trade in Buddhist commodities is booming. I ask how the value of such goods is measured, communicated, and contested by the diverse range of actors who buy and sell them. The analytical framework draws on recent conceptual developments in the fields of religion and of technology to develop Jens Beckert’s typology of value. While Beckert draws on Durkheim’s sociology of religion to di…
Plastic Asia
This introduction to the special issue of Plastic Asia emphasises the ambiguous and unsettling materiality of plastics. It describes how in Asian contexts, the relationships between plastics, purity and pollution are complex: simultaneously promising purity, quality and hygiene, yet frequently failing to fulfil these promises. It looks at how plastics, for some, have come to signify broader frustrations with modernity and the complexities of plas…
Plastic Skinscapes in Tibetan Buddhism
This article takes as its point of departure S. Brent Plate's (2012) compelling metaphor ‘the skin of religion’ to discuss the increasing presence and impact of plastics in the sphere of religion. What material and imagined properties of plastics allow them to be incorporated into the sacred domain? How are plastics experienced? What are the consequences of plastics’ increasing presence? The discussion pivots around observations of three forms of…
Measuring the Tibetan nation: Anthropometry in 1950s Kalimpong
This article explores the anthropometric survey of 5,000 Tibetans by the ethnographer HRH Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark in the northeast Indian Himalayan town of Kalimpong in the 1950s, as part of the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. In the context of the crisis created by the Chinese incursion into Tibet in 1950, which pushed thousands of Tibetans into India, stationary field anthropometry, rather than a mobile expedition, became Pr…
Festschrift for Professor Emeritus Jørgen Delman
The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone
This article investigates how the cultural politics of ethnoreligious belonging play out through everyday aesthetic practices at a market for Tibetan Buddhist objects in Chengdu, China – a multiethnic place that is perceived and experienced as “Tibetan” by the Tibetans and Chinese who work, live, and shop there. Based upon ethnographic research in Chengdu, I explore how Tibetan urbanites navigate the sensorially intense market, sorting its sights…
On Changes and Legacies - Rethinking ‘Asia’ and ‘Copenhagen’
Editorial
Landscapes of Little Lhasa: Materialities of the Vernacular, Political and Commercial in Urban China
Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston, The noodle maker of Kalimpong: The untold story of my struggle for Tibet
Book review requested by Asian Ethnicity (Routledge) submitted on the 29th of January 2016. Online Publication date 10. Nov 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2016.1249654
Tibetanminzumarket: The Intersection of Ethnicity and Commodity
In downtown Chengdu a pocket of Tibetan culture has sprung up: a Tibetan market where Tibetans and Han Chinese meet to buy and sell ethnic minority products. Pointing to how Tibetan migration to Chengdu has contributed to the growth of a vibrant ‘minzu market’ attracting Tibetan and Han Chinese merchants, customers, Buddhist devotees, and voyeurs, this article presents novel understandings of the ethnic goods market in urban Chengdu. The article …
John Kenneth Knaus, Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into the Twenty-First Century
On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China
Since 1949, Tibetans and Uyghurs generally have been perceived as the two most problematic members of the PRC’s great family of peoples and been the targets of ‘carrot and stick’ measures designed
Constructing a Tibetan demos in exile
This article explores how displaced Tibetans demarcate and characterize the Tibetan demos in the process of building a democratic community and a government-in-exile. In this democracy-in-exile, defining the demos is not only a means of representing a people, but also a means of regaining a lost homeland. Two specific instances of the construction of a transnational exile demos are investigated: citizenship and political representation. The Tibet…
Landscapes of Little Lhasa: Materialities of the Vernacular, Political and Commercial in Urban China
Constructing a Tibetan demos in exile
This article explores how displaced Tibetans demarcate and characterize the Tibetan demos in the process of building a democratic community and a government-in-exile. In this democracy-in-exile, defining the demos is not only a means of representing a people, but also a means of regaining a lost homeland. Two specific instances of the construction of a transnational exile demos are investigated: citizenship and political representation. The Tibet…
Plastic Skinscapes in Tibetan Buddhism
This article takes as its point of departure S. Brent Plate's (2012) compelling metaphor ‘the skin of religion’ to discuss the increasing presence and impact of plastics in the sphere of religion. What material and imagined properties of plastics allow them to be incorporated into the sacred domain? How are plastics experienced? What are the consequences of plastics’ increasing presence? The discussion pivots around observations of three forms of…
Tibetanminzumarket: The Intersection of Ethnicity and Commodity
In downtown Chengdu a pocket of Tibetan culture has sprung up: a Tibetan market where Tibetans and Han Chinese meet to buy and sell ethnic minority products. Pointing to how Tibetan migration to Chengdu has contributed to the growth of a vibrant ‘minzu market’ attracting Tibetan and Han Chinese merchants, customers, Buddhist devotees, and voyeurs, this article presents novel understandings of the ethnic goods market in urban Chengdu. The article …
Plastic Asia
This introduction to the special issue of Plastic Asia emphasises the ambiguous and unsettling materiality of plastics. It describes how in Asian contexts, the relationships between plastics, purity and pollution are complex: simultaneously promising purity, quality and hygiene, yet frequently failing to fulfil these promises. It looks at how plastics, for some, have come to signify broader frustrations with modernity and the complexities of plas…
The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone
This article investigates how the cultural politics of ethnoreligious belonging play out through everyday aesthetic practices at a market for Tibetan Buddhist objects in Chengdu, China – a multiethnic place that is perceived and experienced as “Tibetan” by the Tibetans and Chinese who work, live, and shop there. Based upon ethnographic research in Chengdu, I explore how Tibetan urbanites navigate the sensorially intense market, sorting its sights…
Constructing a Tibetan demos in exile
This article explores how displaced Tibetans demarcate and characterize the Tibetan demos in the process of building a democratic community and a government-in-exile. In this democracy-in-exile, defining the demos is not only a means of representing a people, but also a means of regaining a lost homeland. Two specific instances of the construction of a transnational exile demos are investigated: citizenship and political representation. The Tibet…
John Kenneth Knaus, Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into the Twenty-First Century
On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China
Since 1949, Tibetans and Uyghurs generally have been perceived as the two most problematic members of the PRC’s great family of peoples and been the targets of ‘carrot and stick’ measures designed
Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston, The noodle maker of Kalimpong: The untold story of my struggle for Tibet
Book review requested by Asian Ethnicity (Routledge) submitted on the 29th of January 2016. Online Publication date 10. Nov 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2016.1249654
Tibetanminzumarket: The Intersection of Ethnicity and Commodity
In downtown Chengdu a pocket of Tibetan culture has sprung up: a Tibetan market where Tibetans and Han Chinese meet to buy and sell ethnic minority products. Pointing to how Tibetan migration to Chengdu has contributed to the growth of a vibrant ‘minzu market’ attracting Tibetan and Han Chinese merchants, customers, Buddhist devotees, and voyeurs, this article presents novel understandings of the ethnic goods market in urban Chengdu. The article …
Landscapes of Little Lhasa: Materialities of the Vernacular, Political and Commercial in Urban China
On Changes and Legacies - Rethinking ‘Asia’ and ‘Copenhagen’
Editorial
Festschrift for Professor Emeritus Jørgen Delman
The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone
This article investigates how the cultural politics of ethnoreligious belonging play out through everyday aesthetic practices at a market for Tibetan Buddhist objects in Chengdu, China – a multiethnic place that is perceived and experienced as “Tibetan” by the Tibetans and Chinese who work, live, and shop there. Based upon ethnographic research in Chengdu, I explore how Tibetan urbanites navigate the sensorially intense market, sorting its sights…
What is the value of a Tibetan prayer wheel
With Buddhism’s integration into the global market economy, the trade in Buddhist commodities is booming. I ask how the value of such goods is measured, communicated, and contested by the diverse range of actors who buy and sell them. The analytical framework draws on recent conceptual developments in the fields of religion and of technology to develop Jens Beckert’s typology of value. While Beckert draws on Durkheim’s sociology of religion to di…
Plastic Asia
This introduction to the special issue of Plastic Asia emphasises the ambiguous and unsettling materiality of plastics. It describes how in Asian contexts, the relationships between plastics, purity and pollution are complex: simultaneously promising purity, quality and hygiene, yet frequently failing to fulfil these promises. It looks at how plastics, for some, have come to signify broader frustrations with modernity and the complexities of plas…
Plastic Skinscapes in Tibetan Buddhism
This article takes as its point of departure S. Brent Plate's (2012) compelling metaphor ‘the skin of religion’ to discuss the increasing presence and impact of plastics in the sphere of religion. What material and imagined properties of plastics allow them to be incorporated into the sacred domain? How are plastics experienced? What are the consequences of plastics’ increasing presence? The discussion pivots around observations of three forms of…
Measuring the Tibetan nation: Anthropometry in 1950s Kalimpong
This article explores the anthropometric survey of 5,000 Tibetans by the ethnographer HRH Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark in the northeast Indian Himalayan town of Kalimpong in the 1950s, as part of the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. In the context of the crisis created by the Chinese incursion into Tibet in 1950, which pushed thousands of Tibetans into India, stationary field anthropometry, rather than a mobile expedition, became Pr…
Tibetan Buddhism in the Age of Waste
Taking examples from lived Tibetan Buddhism, this article explores the role of religion in the generation, sorting, and handling of waste that is produced or ends up in the religious field. Rather than assuming that waste is the negative and worthless endpoint of consumption, it introduces the concepts of “waste imaginaries” and “waste trajectories” to examine the importance of religion in the relationship between how and why things come to be de…
Tibetan Remediations: Wax Doubles of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok
This article contributes to the study of material religion a discussion on the notion of remediation, by exploring the affordances of the waxwork as a new medium in the Tibetan Buddhist field. It shows how Tibetan waxworks are remediations in two senses of the word. Like the new media forms explored in other studies, they reference older media, blending the popular hyperreal waxwork that we know from Madame Tussauds and the well-established relig…
Waste Ethnographies: An Introduction
Any attempt to address the global waste crisis requires an understanding of waste as both a material reality and a social construct embedded in power relations, social hierarchies, infrastructures and beliefs. As the waste ethnographies in this issue illustrate, ethnography can add important perspectives on waste by exploring how waste is experienced, imagined and materially enacted in particular times and places, rather than treating it as a fix…
When to Waste: Timing and Discarding in the Indian Himalayas
This article contributes to waste and discard studies ethnographic insights into waste as a public problem, highlighting the question of when rather than where to place waste. It presents the waste challenges confronting a town nestled in the Indian Himalayas as it has witnessed substantial population growth and burgeoning tourism, resulting in increased consumption and a massive amount of waste. Based upon collaborative ethnographic research in …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Buddhism (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)