Iselin, Lilian (2014). Translocal Practices on the Tibetan Plateau: Motorised Mobility of Pastoralists and Spatial Transformations. Nomadic peoples, 18(1), pp. 15-37. Commission on Nomadic Peoples 10.3197/np.2014.180103
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Tibetan pastoralist communities in Amdo, the north-eastern region of the Tibetan plateau, have undergone tremendous change due to a number of state induced modernisation processes. Road infrastructure is but one development that aims to facilitate transition from subsistence to a market economy and to link remote pastoralist production into the global or regional market. This paper starts from the local perspective and examines how the expansion of road infrastructure and increased ownership of motorised vehicles has impacted on the mobility of pastoralists. It argues that motorisation and the increased availability of roads creates an interface for pastoralists through which they negotiate a newly emerging translocality. Roads are embedded into everyday movements and provide pastoralists with ways to integrate new developments into their lives.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (IASH) [discontinued] |
UniBE Contributor: |
Iselin, Lilian (A) |
Subjects: |
000 Computer science, knowledge & systems 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
0822-7942 |
Publisher: |
Commission on Nomadic Peoples |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Lilian Iselin |
Date Deposited: |
05 Sep 2014 08:15 |
Last Modified: |
29 Mar 2023 23:34 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3197/np.2014.180103 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/53949 |
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