Transnational environmentalism and entanglements of sovereignty: The tiger campaign across the Himalayas

Yeh, Emily T.

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.06.003

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Transnational environmentalism and entanglements of sovereignty: The tiger campaign across the Himalayas

Yeh, Emily T.·2012·Political Geography

DOI 10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.06.003

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Transnational conservation groups on both sides of the Himalayas noticed the surge in poached tigers and leopards displayed upon Tibetan bodies.
“Transnational conservation groups on both sides of the Himalayas noticed this surge in poached tigers and leopards displayed upon Tibetan bodies (Yeh 2012).”
From Blazing Pelts and Burning Passions: Nationalism, Cultural Politics, and Spectacular Decommodification in Tibet (2013) · cites this paper as Yeh 2012
Transnational environmental advocacy around saving the wild tiger was a major impetus for the Dalai Lama's Kalachakra speech, though one that was obscured to most Tibetans.
“Elsewhere I have argued that transnational environmental advocacy around saving the wild tiger was a major impetus for the Dalai Lama ' s Kalachakra speech, though one that was obscured to most Tibetans (Yeh 2012).”
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Authors: Yeh, E. T.
Affiliations: University of Colorado Boulder (US)
Corresponding author: Yeh, Emily T.
ORCID: Yeh, Emily T.
Venue: Political Geography
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2012-09
Volume: 31
Issue: 7
Pages: 408-418
ISSN: 0962-6298 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.06.003
OpenAlex: W2072434651
Cited by: 20
References: 67
Citations by year: 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2013: 3
FWCI: 9.97
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Political Geography (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geographies of human-animal interactions
Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Sciences and Humanities
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
Keywords: transnational environmentalism, sovereignty, tiger conservation, Dalai Lama, threatened species, Indian sovereignty, assemblage, nature protection, post-sovereignty, Himalaya, environmental activism, conjunctural analysis

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