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dc.contributor.authorPtáčková, Jarmila
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-16T10:18:41Z
dc.date.available2023-11-16T10:18:41Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.submitted2023-08-28T08:11:17Z
dc.identifierONIX_20230828_9780295748207_32
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75821
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121353
dc.description.abstractOpen-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207 At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. Intended to modernize infrastructure and halt environmental degradation, its tactics in western China have resulted in the displacement of pastoral Tibetans to urban residence and sedentary livelihoods, causing massive social and economic shifts and uncertainty and eventually leading to signs of discontent in ethnically Tibetan regions. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, Exile from the Grasslands documents the viewpoints of both the people affected—Tibetan pastoralists in Qinghai Province—and the Chinese officials charged with relocating and settling them in newly constructed housing projects. As China’s international influence expands, the welfare of its ethnic minorities and its handling of environmental issues are receiving close media scrutiny. Jarmila Ptáčkova’s study documents a politically and ecologically significant process that is happening—unlike events in Lhasa or Xinjiang—largely outside the view of the wider world.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudies on Ethnic Groups in China
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherDevelopment
dc.subject.otherTibetan pastoralists
dc.subject.othersedentarization
dc.subject.otherpoverty alleviation
dc.subject.otherChinese policy
dc.subject.otherenvironmental migration
dc.subject.otherecological resettlement
dc.subject.otherGreat Opening of the West development strategy
dc.titleExile from the Grasslands
dc.title.alternativeTibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.6069/9780295748207
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy05b43d6c-b025-4c47-9778-32ac09131cc4
oapen.relation.isFundedByb19c1210-bdad-4399-98b9-916c85ca92f5
oapen.relation.isbn9780295748207
oapen.relation.isbn9780295748184
oapen.imprintUniversity of Washington Press
oapen.pages188
oapen.place.publicationSeattle
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dc.relationisFundedByb19c1210-bdad-4399-98b9-916c85ca92f5


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