Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands

Shrestha, Rupak

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102764

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“…Its nation-building projects focused on teaching the Nepali language to assimilate Dolpopa into the Nepali national culture (Gurung and Bauer, 2022: 159). Consequently, Nepali state's bordering practices (Shrestha 2022) and policies towards its northern border citizens, designed on the principles of the Muluki Ain of 1854 that institutionalized a national caste system, discriminated against them on the basis of their linguistic and cultural difference. The rise of the global conservation movement in the 1970s pushed the Nepali government to create national parks, including SPNP in 1984.…”

Section: Dolpo Within and Beyond The Nepali Nation-statementioning

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Governing caterpillar fungus: Participatory conservation as state-making, territorialization, and dispossession in Dolpo, Nepal

Gurung

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Protected areas account for nearly a quarter of the total area of Nepal and over eighty percent of its Himalayan region. National parks—which are governed by top-down policies enforced through militarized infrastructures—have become a crucial avenue and site for the Nepali state to expand its authority and territorialize its peripheral spaces. But such state-forming effects of the park are obscured by the stated goals of biodiversity conservation which are often implemented through participatory conservation policies that claim to promote local participation and development. Through a case study of Shey Phoksundo National Park and the contested governance of caterpillar fungus in Dolpo, Northwest Nepal, this paper examines the role of participatory conservation in state-making, territorialization, and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in the Himalayan borderlands. After a brief background on the relationship between Dolpopa and the Nepali state, I introduce state-making, territorialization, and dispossession as corollary processes that define the experiences of conservation for Dolpopa. I conceptualize state-making and territorialization as intertwined state efforts and strategies to systematize local spatial practices and reorder socio-natural relations in ways that justify state authority and establish state territory in Dolpopa spaces. I approach dispossession as an ongoing, relational process of domination and removal, particularly of Dolpopa's ability to access and govern their collective land including caterpillar fungus. In so doing, I neither reify the state as a monolith nor assume dispossession to be totalizing. Rather, I show how “the state” is constituted in moments by a range of actors, institutions, and processes; as well as how Dolpopa contest dispossession by asserting their claims to collective land both within and beyond state structures.

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Section: Dolpo Within and Beyond The Nepali Nation-statementioning

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Governing caterpillar fungus: Participatory conservation as state-making, territorialization, and dispossession in Dolpo, Nepal

Gurung

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…As a researcher focusing on the experiences of Tibetans and Himalayan Indigenous peoples in contemporary Nepal and the diaspora, I found significant resonance between Sara's discussions on the intersections of body and territory in Ladakh and the complexities of territorial belonging in my own work. But rather than extending how the book contributes to my scholarship, which I have done elsewhere (Shrestha, 2022), I provide in this essay three narratives on belonging, caste, and pedagogy that elucidate the multiple possibilities of the Intimate Geopolitics .…”

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Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy

Shrestha

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Between hope and hostility: The affirmative biopolitics of everyday smartphone geographies

Morgan

2024

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Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands

Cited by 6 publications

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Governing caterpillar fungus: Participatory conservation as state-making, territorialization, and dispossession in Dolpo, Nepal

Governing caterpillar fungus: Participatory conservation as state-making, territorialization, and dispossession in Dolpo, Nepal

Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy

Between hope and hostility: The affirmative biopolitics of everyday smartphone geographies

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