{"product_id":"the-battle-for-fortune-state-led-development-personhood-and-power-among-tibetans-in-china-paperback-softback-9781501719677","title":"The Battle for Fortune; State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power Among Tibetans in China (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501719677","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Battle for Fortune\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eState-Led Development, Personhood, and Power Among Tibetans in China\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharlene Makley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501719677\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e348 pages, 26 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 2 maps, 1 diagram - 2 Maps - 26 Halftones, black and white - 1 Diagrams\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlene Makley's \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e, the latest contribution to contemporary Tibetan studies, is a laudable accomplishment of her long years of ethnographic work with Tibetan communities in Qinghai Province... Overall, the book is a wellwritten dialogic ethnography—a solid addition to scholarship on the region as well as testament to consequences of modernization in a Tibetan region.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Anthropologist) \u003cp\u003eThis book foregrounds the worth of anthropological-qualitative research in studying development issues in China and elsewhere. Moreover, it promises a hope for anthropology with regards to its humanistic touch.\u003c\/p\u003e (The China Quarterly) \u003cp\u003eCharlene Makley's \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and insightful study of the long-term influence of development and urbanization on village society in contemporary eastern Tibet\u003c\/p\u003e - Andrew Grant, University of Boulder, Colorado (Himalaya)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Battle for Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. \u003c\/b\u003eThe book builds upon anthropology's qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of economic development campaigns in China's multiethnic northwestern province of Qinghai.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlene Makley considers Tibetans' encounters with development projects as first and foremost a historically situated interpretive politics, in which people negotiate the presence or absence of moral and authoritative persons and their associated jurisdictions and powers. Because most Tibetans believe the active presence of deities and other invisible beings has been the ground of power, causation, and fertile or fortunate landscapes, Makley also takes divine beings seriously, refusing to relegate them to a separate, less consequential, \"religious\" or \"premodern\" world. \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e, therefore challenges readers to grasp the unique reality of Tibetans' values and fears in the face of their marginalization in China. Makley uses this approach to encourage a more multidimensional and dynamic understanding of state-local relations than mainstream accounts of development and unrest that portray Tibet and China as a kind of yin-and-yang pair for models of statehood and development in a new global order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523379491096,"sku":"9781501719677","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-battle-for-fortune-state-led-development-personhood-and-power-among-tibetans-in-china-paperback-softback-9781501719677","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}