Negotiating Ethnic Belonging Along the Sinophone Borderlands

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Negotiating Ethnic Belonging Along the Sinophone Borderlands

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In the aftermath of the foundation of the People´s Republic of China (PRC), a careful tailor craftsmanship aimed at “stretching the short, tight, skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire” (Anderson 1983). A complex demographic mosaic, especially diverse in the borderlands of the new-born communist state, was part of this imperial heritage. The subsequent ethnic classification, carried by teams of Chinese anthropologists and ethnologists between 1950 and 1987, created static self-bounded categories of ethno-national groups (minzu) that could hardly accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the situation on the ground. On the one hand, cross- border (kuajing) groups became divided by tighter international borders and sanctioned by countries’ competing classification efforts targeting “indigenous” people. This is the case, for example, of Miao in southwest China and Hmong in Vietnam. On the other hand, small insular communities within the PRC and farther from the international borders were assimilated within bigger minzu categories or denied official recognition altogether. While the top-down project of ethnic classification within the PRC was implemented, bottom-up processes of differentiation and/or assimilation among ethnic groups also emerged and continue to evolve. This online-workshop aims at bringing together the expertise of scholars whose work focuses on the ethnically and linguistically diverse people at the Sinophone borderlands, broadly conceived as both areas across international borders and “grey areas” within the PRC that do not comply to minzu isomorphism. We welcome ethnographic and historical perspectives of analysis but invite the participating scholars to keep their focus on the twentieth and twenty-first century. We wish to address the formation, transformation, and resilience of ethnic identities as processes of mediation between the PRC´s imposition of the ethnic classification and the bottom-up assertions and rejections of ethnic belonging and the changes happened over time. Rather that seeing these dynamics as opposed to each other, we are interested in unpacking specific case-studies that show in what ways ethnicity is negotiated in the Sinophone borderlands.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Negotiating Ethnic Belonging Along the Sinophone Borderlands

Popis výsledku anglicky

In the aftermath of the foundation of the People´s Republic of China (PRC), a careful tailor craftsmanship aimed at “stretching the short, tight, skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire” (Anderson 1983). A complex demographic mosaic, especially diverse in the borderlands of the new-born communist state, was part of this imperial heritage. The subsequent ethnic classification, carried by teams of Chinese anthropologists and ethnologists between 1950 and 1987, created static self-bounded categories of ethno-national groups (minzu) that could hardly accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the situation on the ground. On the one hand, cross- border (kuajing) groups became divided by tighter international borders and sanctioned by countries’ competing classification efforts targeting “indigenous” people. This is the case, for example, of Miao in southwest China and Hmong in Vietnam. On the other hand, small insular communities within the PRC and farther from the international borders were assimilated within bigger minzu categories or denied official recognition altogether. While the top-down project of ethnic classification within the PRC was implemented, bottom-up processes of differentiation and/or assimilation among ethnic groups also emerged and continue to evolve. This online-workshop aims at bringing together the expertise of scholars whose work focuses on the ethnically and linguistically diverse people at the Sinophone borderlands, broadly conceived as both areas across international borders and “grey areas” within the PRC that do not comply to minzu isomorphism. We welcome ethnographic and historical perspectives of analysis but invite the participating scholars to keep their focus on the twentieth and twenty-first century. We wish to address the formation, transformation, and resilience of ethnic identities as processes of mediation between the PRC´s imposition of the ethnic classification and the bottom-up assertions and rejections of ethnic belonging and the changes happened over time. Rather that seeing these dynamics as opposed to each other, we are interested in unpacking specific case-studies that show in what ways ethnicity is negotiated in the Sinophone borderlands.

Druh

W - Uspořádání workshopu

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50901 - Other social sciences

Projekt

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Návaznosti

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Místo konání akce

Olomouc

Stát konání akce

CZ - Česká republika

Datum zahájení akce

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Datum ukončení akce

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Celkový počet účastníků

11

Počet zahraničních účastníků

11

Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků

WRD - Celosvětová akce