The DOI matches its Crossref record; 2 of the 2 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Narrative Dispossession: Tibet and the Gendered Logics of Historical Possibility
Abstract
To possess something is an unpredictable combination of the following: to have, to own, to know, or to control. Land, stories, resources, equanimity, and loyalty are all examples of materially incommensurate things a person might possess. Even without material wealth, for example, one might be said to be in possession of a wicked sense of humor or a good memory or despite all else, one's own life story. Possessing one's own life story, however, is not a given. Thinking of one's life as a story, as something that can be narrated, involves social processes and conventions operative well beyond individual processes of reflection or experience. Narrating one's life, then, is to situate oneself and to be situated in dialogue with society.1As such, whether one's narrative is consensual with or contradictory to social norms, such narration signals possession of shared structures of possibility, including normative understandings of history, memory, knowledge, and truth. To narrate one's life is not just an issue of how, but also a matter ofif.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“the lake of blood atop of which Palden Lhamo is portrayed is commonly understood as menstrual blood from which her power, including that of the soteriological quality, emanates.”
From Military might and healing power. Appropriation and representations of the goddess Palden Lhamo in Kalmykia (2022) · cites this paper as McGranahan 2010
Citations
Cites
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Enloe, C. (2014) · doi:10.1525/9780520957282 · Cited by 2,165
One Plus One Makes Three: Buddhist Gender, Monasticism, and the Law of the Non-excluded Middle
Gyatso, J. (2003) · History of Religions · doi:10.1086/423006 · Cited by 75 · cited 3×
“46 In her ethnography of a nunnery in Ladakh, Kim Gutschow argues that gender is not just a “significant … fault line in Buddhist discourse,” but also a hierarchical project in which male (and specifically monastic) power is built upon, and at times built by, 42 Gyatso 2003.”
Background
Research works printed but not linked: 77
- 10.1007/978-1-349-19059-1_20 · DOI
- Stoler, 1995, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, 10.1215/9780822377719 · DOI
- Buckley, 1988, Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation, 10.1525/9780520340565 · DOI
- Enloe, 2000, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives, 10.1525/9780520923744 · DOI
- Canning, 2006, Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship
- 10.1177/1463499604045566 · DOI
- Ortner, 1996, Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture
- McGranahan, 1996, Beauty Queens on the Global State: Gender, Contests, and Power, 161
- Butler, 1990, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
- 10.1215/9780822392972 · DOI
- Doniger, 1980, Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts
- Devine, 1993, Determination: Tibetan Women and the Struggle for an Independent Tibet
- Gyatso, 1998, Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary, 10.1515/9780691221427 · DOI
- Makley, 2005b, Women in Tibet, 259
- 10.1057/9780312299095 · DOI
- 10.3998/mpub.7914 · DOI
- van der Kuijp, 1996, Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, 39
- 10.1215/9780822388456 · DOI · Paper page
- Enloe, 1983, Does Khaki Become You?: The Militarization of Women's Lives
- 10.1525/can.2005.20.4.570 · DOI · Paper page
- Klein, 1995, Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhism, Feminists, and the Art of the Self
- Trouillot, 1995, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
- Enloe, 1993, The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War
- 10.7312/diem14320 · DOI
- Shakya, 1999, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet since 1947
- Williams, 1996, Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality
- Foucault, 1973, The Order of Things: An Archeaology of the Human Sciences
- Morgan, 2006, The Feminist History Reader
- 10.1525/ae.2003.30.3.381 · DOI
- Aretxaga, 1997, Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland
- Bruner, 1986, The Anthropology of Experience, 3
- 10.1086/ahr.113.5.1375 · DOI
- Stoler, 2002, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
- 10.5422/fso/9780823225033.001.0001 · DOI
- Vance, 1989, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality
- 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.00353.x · DOI
- Knaus, 1999, Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival
- 10.2307/1354153 · DOI
- de Nebesky-Wojkowitz, 1993, Oracles and Demons of Tibet: The Cult and Iconography of Tibetan Protector Deities
- Doniger, 1985, Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
- 10.4324/9780203361832 · DOI
- Foucault, 1972, Power/Knowledge, 78
- Foucault, 1991, The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, 53
- Geertz, 1986, The Anthropology of Experience, 373
- Goldstein, 1989, A History of Modern Tibet, 1911–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, 10.1525/9780520911765 · DOI
- Huber, 1999b, Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places in Tibetan Culture, 771
- Goldstein, 2009, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969
- 10.1057/9781403914132 · DOI
- Gutschow, 2004, Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas, 10.4159/9780674038080 · DOI · Paper page
- Patt, 1993, A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands
- Gyatso, 1989, Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet, 33
- Das, 1990, Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots, and Survivors in South Asia
- Gyatso, 2005, Women in Tibet, 1
- Havnevik, 1989, Tibetan Buddhist Nuns: History, Cultural Norms and Social Reality
- Huber, 1994, Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Fagernes 1992, 350
- Makley, 1994, Gendered Practices and the Inner Sanctum: The Reconstruction of Tibetan Sacred Space in ‘China's Tibet.’, Tibet Journal, 19, 61
- Huber, 2008, Conflict and Social Order in Tibet and Central Asia
- Kaplan, 1999, Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State
- Mackenzie, 1999, Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment
- 10.1525/ae.2003.30.4.597 · DOI
- 10.1017/S0010417505000034 · DOI
- 10.1162/jcws.2006.8.3.102 · DOI
- McGranahan, 2007, Imperial Formations and Their Discontents
- Norbu, 1986, Warriors of Tibet: The Story of Aten and the Khampas’ Fight for the Freedom of Their Country
- Ortner, 1974, Women, Culture, and Society, 67
- Pachen, 2000, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun
- Huber, 1999a, The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet, 10.1093/oso/9780195120073.001.0001 · DOI
- Thondup, 1992, Mdo khams cha phreng gi lo rgyus gser gyi snye ma
- Palmo, 2002, Reflections on a Mountain Lake: Teachings on Practical Buddhism
- 10.1007/978-1-349-19510-7 · DOI
- Riley, 2000, Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony, 10.1515/9780804778879 · DOI
- 10.2307/1864376 · DOI · Paper page
- Scott, 1988, Gender and the Politics of History, 10.7312/scot91266 · DOI
- 10.1017/S0010417500003327 · DOI
- Steedman, 1987, Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives
- 10.1017/S0010417500002589 · DOI
- Tapontsang, 1997, Ama Adhe, The Voice that Remembers: The Heroic Story of a Woman's Fight to Free Tibet
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Gazizova, V. (2022) · Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines · doi:10.4000/emscat.5684 · Cited by 1
Metadata
- Authors
- McGranahan, C.
- Corresponding author
- McGranahan, Carole
- ORCID
- McGranahan, Carole
- Venue
- Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2010-10
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 768-797
- ISSN
- 0010-4175 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-2999
- OpenAlex
- W2135661344
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 21.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Comparative Studies in Society and History (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Memory, History, Trauma, Identity
- Keywords
- dispossession, narrative, gender, historical possibility, Tibet, life stories, memory, social norms, possession
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Narrative Dispossession: Tibet and the Gendered Logics of Historical Possibility. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1017/s0010417510000460
- The paper
- McGranahan, C. (2010). Narrative Dispossession: Tibet and the Gendered Logics of Historical Possibility. Comparative Studies in Society and History. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417510000460
