Pastures of Change Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet /

• Main Author: Tan, Gillian G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 10
• Subjects: Anthropology.; Sustainable development.; Development economics.; Public policy.; Sustainable Development.; Development Economics.; Public Policy.

This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Drawing on long-term fieldwork that underscores an ethnography of local nomadic pastoralists, international development organisations, and Chinese government policies, the...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Pastoralism and Change in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau
• Chapter 2: Ethnographic Setting of Nomadic Pastoralism in Eastern Tibet
• Chapter 3: Ideologies of Change from Maoist Development to Market-Oriented Governmentality
• Chapter 4: 'Change for a Better Future': International Development in Eastern Tibet
• Chapter 5: Historical Engagements in Eastern Tibet
• Chapter 6: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations
• Chapter 7: Caterpillar Fungus and Transforming Subjectivities
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.