Tibet on Fire [electronic resource] : Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation /
Whalen-Bridge, John.author.
Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015. The volume asserts that the self-immolation act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural genocide.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Tibetan Situation -- Tibet as Rhetorical Situation -- Politics, Performance, and Drama -- Argument and Identification -- 2. Before Self-Immolation: Western Media and Tibetan Protests, 2008 -- Charm Offensive: Angry Monks in the Western Press -- Buddhist Anger as an Anti-Colonial Tradition -- China Syndrome: The Global Suppression of Tibetan Voices -- 3. Irreversible Speech -- Running on Fire: The Act Itself and the Creation of an Image -- New Media and the Great Firewall of China: Distributing the Act -- Censorship and Self-Immolation -- Spreading Like Fire: Act and Agency -- 4. Making a Scene: Actor, Time, and Place -- Pointillism and the Paradigmatic Tibetan Self-Immolator -- Selecting an Origin: How The List Positions the Actor -- PRC Responses: Lunatics, Puppets, Murderers, and Terrorists -- 5. Purpose: Politics, Buddhism, and Tibetan Survival -- Hijacking Religion and Justifying Murder -- What Self-Immolators Say: Statements of Purpose -- Democracy, Division, and Dharamsala Dilemmas -- Tibetan Self-Immolation as Response to Genocide -- Blood on His Hands? The Dalai Lama's Dilemma -- Emptiness Also Is Form: Buddhism and Necessary Worldliness -- 6. External Affairs: The Globalization of China's War on Tibet -- Soft Power in a Hard World -- Standing for Something: Solzhenitsyn and the Endtimes of Human Rights -- Silencing the Dalai Lama: Signs of China's Global War on Free Speech -- 7. Conclusion: Tibet's Next Incarnation.
Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015. The volume asserts that the self-immolation act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural genocide.
Philosophy, Asian.
Religion-History.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology-Asia.
Religion.
Sociology.
Non-Western Philosophy.
History of Religion.
Sociology of Religion.
Asian Culture.
Religious Studies, general.
Sociology, general.