Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen

Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen

3. Doing Research in the Contested Tibetan Field

Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen

Mitra Härkönen [+-]
University of Helsinki
Mitra Härkönen is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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Due to the sensitive political situation, the “field” in this study is constructed out of various geographical and spatial locations. What connects these different locations is the notion of shared Tibetanness defined principally by Buddhism, Tibetan monasticism, Tibetan culture and, at least to some extent, by a sense of Tibetan nationalism. Applying a multi-sited approach to the study of Tibetan Buddhist nuns proved to be very illuminating. Had I conducted one long, single-sited research, I would not have realized the widely shared notion of this common feeling of Tibetanness and thus would have been unable to witness some dramatic changes that took place in the Tibetan regions.

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Härkönen, Mitra. 3. Doing Research in the Contested Tibetan Field. Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 25-43 Jan 2023. ISBN 9781800503014. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44139. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.44139. Jan 2023

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