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Dibyesh Anand - Geopolitical Exotica - 9780816647668 - V9780816647668
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Geopolitical Exotica

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Description for Geopolitical Exotica Paperback. Series: Borderlines. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.

Geopolitical Exotica examines exoticized Western representations of Tibet and Tibetans and the debate over that land’s status with regard to China. Concentrating on specific cultural images of the twentieth century—promulgated by novels, popular films, travelogues, and memoirs—Dibyesh Anand lays bare the strategies by which “Exotica Tibet” and “Tibetanness” have been constructed, and he investigates the impact these constructions have had on those who are being represented.

 

Although images of Tibet have excited the popular imagination in the West for many years, Geopolitical Exotica is the first book to explore representational practices within the study of international relations. Anand challenges the ... Read more

 

In this masterfully synthetic work, Anand establishes that postcoloniality provides new insights into themes of representation and identity and demonstrates how IR as a discipline can meaningfully expand its focus beyond the West.

 

Dibyesh Anand is a reader in international relations at the University of Westminster, London.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Borderlines
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647668
SKU
V9780816647668
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