When ‘exile’ becomes sedentary
On the quotidian experiences of ‘India-born’ Tibetans in Dharamsala, north India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6039744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan T Chen (Gettysburg College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-286 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Ethnicity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-1369 • E-ISSN: 1469-2953 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14631369.2012.630568 |
| OpenAlex | W2079647144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 18 |
Waltraud Kokot and her coauthors stated ‘ ... . despite a necessary focus on transnational networks and movement, ethnographic studies of diaspora must also not neglect the realities of sedentary diasporic life.’ Taking such a call as my point of departure, this article explores the quotidian experiences of ‘in exile’ specific to a subgroup of Tibetans in Dharamsala, north India, who have for a couple of decades at least described themselves as the ‘India-born’. Secondly, it particularly attends to the sensory domains of these Tibetans' local/Indian experiences and in turn highlights the geo-affinity that they ambivalently feel for the place where they are at once native and exilic. Demonstrated in the article are the ongoing processes through which individuals, feeling marked by the displacement of the nation to which they belong, realize their Tibetan attributes in the context(s) they in varied ways perceive as ‘Indian’
Archaeology · Diaspora · Ethnography · Ethnology · Feeling · Geography · Neglect · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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The Nation-State and Its Others
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Tibetan Culture in the Diaspora
Reproducing Identity
Foundations for an anthropology of the senses
Diasporas in Modern Societies
From the Nation-State to the Transnational World
Rethinking Diaspora (s)
Introduction
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Empowering Place
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |