Ecological Degradation and Endangered Ethnicities
China's Minority Environmental Discourses as Manifested in Popular Songs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3614082 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nimrod Baranovitch (0000-0002-1358-5357, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 181-205 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911815001576 |
| OpenAlex | W2292861791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 34 |
Much has been written in recent years about the environmental degradation in China's ethnic minority regions and the impact that this degradation and the policies that have been implemented to combat it have had on minority populations. To date, however, the research has focused mainly on the livelihood and lifestyle of minority herders and farmers. This article shifts the focus to the more symbolic realm of discourse and identity and to the minority educated urban elite, for whom this environmental degradation is linked primarily to ethnic politics. Based on an analysis of popular songs by famous Mongolian, Uyghur, and Tibetan musicians, along with interviews with the musicians who created them and other minority intellectuals, this article proposes that China's minority intellectuals have appropriated the global discourse of environmentalism to construct minority environmental discourses that they use to assert their ethnic identities, express ethnic concerns and aspirations, and make ethno-nationalist claims
China · Elite · Environmental degradation · Environmentalism · Ethnic group · Identity politics · Livelihood · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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Construction of environmental discourse concerning Europe in China
Domesticating the Belt and Road
Ohuokhai
Sing to Learn
Ethnobiology through Song
The Sinicized self
The Impact of Environmental Pollution on Ethnic Unrest in Xinjiang
Animal Representation in Alai’s Empty Mountains and the Role of Animals in the Remaking of Tibetan Identity and History in Contemporary Tibet
Green-Colored Uyghur Poet
The Ethnic Ecocritical Animal
Pastoralism after culture
The End of Nomadism?
Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China
Rangeland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau
Government, market and households in the ecological relocation process
Environmental resettlement and development, on the steppes of Inner Mongolia, PRC
Negotiating the Grassland
Mongolian nomadic culture and ecological culture
From Wasteland to Wetland? Nature and Nation in China's Tibet
Green Governmentality and Pastoralism in Western China
Tough Times for Tibetan Nomads in Western China
Greening western China
The Political Ecology of Geopiety
Analysis of YouTube Videos Used by Activists in the Uyghur Nationalist Movement
From the Margins to the Centre
From Resistance to Adaptation
Staged Development in Xinjiang
Tibetan Culture in the Diaspora
Paradise Under Construction
Inverted Exile
Integrating Sacred Knowledge for Conservation
Beyond Great Walls
Blazing Pelts and Burning Passions
Nomads of Western Tibet
Megadevelopment, Environmentalism, and Resistance
The Shifting Middle Ground
The Emergence of Indigeneity
Endangered Forest, Endangered People
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |