Facing Globalization in the Himalayas : Belonging and the Politics of the Self

This book explores the complex relationships between belonging and globalization in the contemporary Himalayan world and beyond. Over the last decades, the interrelations at local, national, and global scales have intensified in historically unprecedented forms and intensity. At the same time, homogenizing global processes have generated parochial and vernacular reactions. This book aims at developing an appropriate analysis of these interactions and, thus, at supplementing the previous collection on the Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas. Â This book is the first major study on this topic and a crucial contribution to the study of the current change within the Himalayan societies and their cultures. It is based on several case studies carried out by outstanding anthropologists, geographers, linguists, political scientists working in the Indian and Nepalese Himalayas. Â Cover Contents Preface 1 - Introduction PART I - SHIFTING HORIZONS OF BELONGING 2- Improbable Globalization 3 - Circular Lives 4 - Being a Ladakhi, Playing the Nomad PART II - MIGRANT EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH ASIA AND BEYOND 5 - Migration, Marginality, and Modernity 6 - Rights and a Sense of Belonging 7 - Geographical, Cultural, and Professional Belonging of Nepalese Migrants in India and Qatar PART III- CREATING TRANSNATIONAL BELONGING 8 - Belonging and Solitude among Nepali Nurses in Great Britain 9 - Culture on Display 10 - Being and Belonging 11 - Global Gurungs PART IV - GLOBALITY AND ACTIVIST EXPERIENCE 12 - Buddhist Activism, New Sanghas, andthe Politics of Belonging among Some Tharuand Magar Communities of Southern Nepal* 13 - Power Projects, Protests, and Problematicsof Belonging in Dzongu, Sikkim* 14 - Weepingsikkim.blogspot.com PART V - NATIONAL RECONFIGURATIONS 16 - Who Belongs to Tibet? 17- The Last Himalayan Monarchies Glossary About the Editors and Contributors Name Index Subject Index This book explores the complex relationships between belonging and globalization in the contemporary Himalayan world and beyond. Over the last decades, the interrelations at local, national, and global scales have intensified in historically unprecedented forms and intensity. At the same time, homogenizing global processes have generated parochial and vernacular reactions. This book aims at developing an appropriate analysis of these interactions and, thus, at supplementing the previous collection on the Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas. Â This book is the first major study on this topic and a crucial contribution to the study of the current change within the Himalayan societies and their cultures. It is based on several case studies carried out by outstanding anthropologists, geographers, linguists, political scientists working in the Indian and Nepalese Himalayas. Â