Politische Geographien des Religiösen – Ambivalenzen der Verkopplung von Religion und Raum im Fall Tibet
"Religious spaces" can become a powerful nucleus of (geo-) political imaginations, identities, and conflicts. The paper outlines this aspect using the example of Tibet. Considering the prominent position of Buddhism in Tibet, the tense relationships between religion, space and nation come...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/70/109/2015/gh-70-109-2015.pdf |
| Summary: | "Religious spaces" can become a powerful nucleus of (geo-) political
imaginations, identities, and conflicts. The paper outlines this aspect
using the example of Tibet. Considering the prominent position of Buddhism
in Tibet, the tense relationships between religion, space and nation come
into view. In this respect the paper does however not primarily discuss the
quite well known antagonistic constructions of pro-Chinese and pro-Tibetan
geopolitical discourses. Rather, it addresses the far less publicized yet
for the development of Tibetan Nationalism equally important fact that
differences in the production of religious spaces and respective identities
can also be found <i>within</i> Tibetan society. Tracing these discursive inventions of
tradition helps to better understand, why the establishment of a national
project in Tibet has been difficult and why it only started to
gain traction and visibility in the face of mounting threads by an
antagonistic exterior and the precarious Tibetan exile situation. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |