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Tibetan and Himalayan Studies in India: State of the Field and Possible Future Trajectories
Get PDFTibetan Studies has not followed the same trajectory in India that it has taken in the Global North. It has largely remained an exilic endeavour, with some support from the Indian state, and flourishes mainly in the form of Buddhist Studies. We use the term Tibetan Studies more as shorthand for the scholarly study of Tibet’s history, politics, geography, religion and cultural traditions as they might have unfolded in various spaces within India and not as an identifying term for an existing field. In this paper, we show that the course of Tibetan Studies in India has been affected by geopolitical relations between India and China and the refugee status of Tibetans. Because Tibetan Studies in India has developed primarily within the exile Tibetan spaces there, an essentialised construction of a homogenous Tibetan identity prevails, precluding a more holistic approach to the study of Tibetic peoples of the Himalayan region. While presenting an overview of the state of the field of Tibetan Studies in India, we also outline a possible direction for an integrated Tibet and Himalayan Studies, applicable particularly in the Indian context, that takes into account the changing empirical and geopolitical situation globally that necessitates a timely conceptual and practical intervention. It also considers the inclusive scope of Himalayan Studies to recover and restore long-overlooked historical and ethnographic material from the Tibetan borderlands, which include but are not limited to the Indian Himalayan or trans-Himalayan regions
To Be “Entrepreneured”: An Ethnographic Study of Tech Entrepreneurship Competitions in China
Get PDFTechnological incubators are commonly regarded as important infrastructures that nurture nascent business ventures, meant to create conditions for innovation and regional economic development. However, in China, such an incubator functions as a performative apparatus governed by the state. The Chinese state has purposefully fostered entrepreneurial hopes and expectations among certain privileged groups of talents through the indirect manipulation of competition winners by mentors and judges. These individuals are not necessarily the ideal entrepreneurial talents according to market standards. In this article, I employ the passive construction of entrepreneurship as a verb – “being entrepreneured” (bei chuangye) – to illustrate how entrepreneurs are not merely actors with agency, but are also acted upon by socialist mechanisms in China and the performative governance exercised by the Chinese state over individual entrepreneurs. Using an ethnographic case study of a state-sponsored entrepreneurship competition, which took place in Guangzhou in 2020, and 95 semi-structured interviews collected throughout seven months of multi-sited fieldwork, the article shows how transnational technological communities are in some ways “being entrepreneured” in China. I problematize this notion to show the discrepancies and contradictions between the public and the private criteria in selecting entrepreneurial talents in China.
Kjell Arne Røviks A Translation Theory of Knowledge Transfer – learning across organizational borders
Get PDFDen norske organisationsforsker og professor i statsvidenskab Kjell Arne Røvik har igennem årene publiceret mange forskningsartikler, lærebøger og forskningsbaserede bøger om organisationsteori indenfor den offentlige sektor. Nogle af hans seneste publikationer fokuserer på organisationsteori for offentlig sektor (Christensen, 2021) og på udvikling af en ”instrumentel” teori om videnoverførsel i organisationer (Røvik, 2016). Herudover har Kjell Arne Røvik igennem mange år forsket intensivt i, hvordan innovative ledelses-, organiserings- og reform-ideer rejser mellem og bliver oversat i organisationer og organisatoriske felter. Med afsæt i bl.a. den skandinaviske neo-institutionelle oversættelsesforskning har han leveret flere væsentlige bidrag til vores forståelse af, hvordan ledelses-, organiserings-og reform-ideer rejser og oversættes i og imellem offentlige såvel som private organisationer (Røvik, 1998) (Røvik, 2007). 
Alessandro Rippa, Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development and Control in Western China: Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 282 pp. ISBN 9789463725606
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No full textDette åbne nummer af Dansk Sociologi består af fire originale forskningsartikler, tre boganmeldelser og fem ph.d.-omtaler. Artiklerne har trods deres forskellige temaer og tilgange det til fælles, at de klart relaterer sig til, og kommenterer på, samtidige politiske prioriteter og indsatser. Vi møder således de seneste års »tryghedspakker« i spørgsmålet om, hvordan utryghed hænger sammen med udsathed for kriminalitet; »parallelsamfundsaftalen« i spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt risikofaktorerne for at unge får en sigtelse varierer imellem udsatte og ikke-udsatte boligområder; den statslige udflytning af arbejdspladser i spørgsmålet om, på hvilke præmisser denne udflytning af arbejdspladser og institutioner sker; samt »klimavalget« i spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt vi ud fra valget i 2019 kan se systematiske aldersforskelle i vælgernes prioritering og holdning til den grønne dagsorden. Tilsammen illustrerer artiklerne den kontinuerlige og vigtige sociologiske refleksivitet i mødet med samfundets regulering og styringsforsøg
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Hannah Knox: Thinking like a climate: governing a city in times of environmental change
Ole B. Jensen og Nikolaj Schultz (red.): Det epidemiske samfun
