In the Himalayas, water is seen by some as intricately linked to humans and produced
through ethical actions. Its materiality, as a lack or excess of rain or snow, as healthy or …

In January 2014, the British tabloid the Daily Mail ran a story with a photo of a bright red
sunset projected on to a screen in smog-darkened Tiananmen Square claiming that 'the …

Abstract Representations of Green Tibetans connected to Buddhism and indigenous
wisdom have been deployed by a variety of actors and persist in popular consciousness …

In a study of the cultural politics of nature conservation in Sardinia, anthropologist Tracey
Heatherington meditates on the awkward productiveness of thinking about shepherds on the …

For over half a century, the Chinese government has carried out large-scale poisoning
campaigns on the Tibetan Plateau in an effort to exterminate the plateau pika, which is …

The increasingly popular notion of Anthropocene urges us to reflect and review the role of
the human, the Anthropos, as part of the planet earth. In this context, tourism has been …

In this paper we argue that research on development in frontier regions needs to incorporate
an explicitly environmental and ecological dimension, because economic frontiers are …

There has been a significant proliferation of writing that asserts the affinities of traditional
Tibetan cultural-religious concepts with contemporary environmental protection concerns …

This article explores how global environmental organizations unintentionally fostered the
notion of indigenous people and rights in a country that officially opposed these concepts. In …

This article considers the future of “indigeneity” in China through examining the case of the
Buyi (Bouyei), an ethnic group that has historically been closely aligned with state-building …