Political Mobilization in Tibet

Resource Mobilization Theory: Political Movement in Egypt

This paper discusses the application of the resource mobilization theory (RMT) to clarify the activities of certain key socio-political groups and movements in Egypt up till 2011. It contends that the political movements in the country have utilized information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social networks sites (SNSs) as a tool for mobilizing people and coordinating anti-regime act...

“The Birth of a Clinic”? The IMS Dispensary in Gyantse (Tibet), 1904–1910

The establishment in 1904 of a British hospital at Gyantse, in southwestern Tibet, marked the formal introduction of biomedicine into that Himalayan state. In the ensuing decades, officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) offered treatment to Tibetans from their Gyantse base as a part of the British imperial relationship with the Tibetan state. Given that Gyantse was a small town of little p...

Changing population characteristics in Tibet, 1959 to 1965.

Abstract This research note records the most recent Chinese figures for the population of Tibet, together with the official explanation for a decline in 1959, compared with the totals announced for 1953 and 1957, followed by a steady increase since 1960. Brief reference is made to political and economic changes which are affecting the composition of population.

Identity and Support for Political Communities Based on Language Choice Data in Tibet

Exile meets homeland: politics, performance, and authenticity in the Tibetan diaspora

Tibetans are often imagined as authentic, pure, and geographically undifferentiated, but Tibetan identity formation is, in fact, varied and deeply inflected by national location and transnational trajectories. In this paper I examine the frictions of encounter between three groups of Tibetans who arrived in the USA around the same time, but who differ in their relationships to the homeland. The...