From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent Within the Tibetan Diaspora
- ISBN-10
- 0438248872
- ISBN-13
- 9780438248878
- Pages
- 346
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Author
- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Description
This dissertation considers anew questions of identity, belonging, governance, and nationalism within the context of displacement. While post-colonial approaches to these issues presuppose a nation-state, my project, by contrast, casts critical light on Tibetan nationalism and the future nation as it is articulated and practiced by a refugee and diasporic peoples. My research does this by juxtaposing the external struggle for international recognition by the Tibetan Government-in-Exile---a territory-less entity that behaves like a state----with the less examined internal struggle to command loyalty within the Tibetan diaspora.
