Panel 28: The New Urbanization in Mongolia and Tibet and its Impact on Family and Society

PANEL 28: THE NEW URBANIZATION IN MONGOLIA AND TIBET AND ITS IMPACT ON FAMILY AND SOCIETY

Convenor: Nancy Levine

SATURDAY 27 JULY

 

 

9:00-9:30 A Choice of “Becoming an Ecological Migrant”: The Living Strategy of the Pastoral People in Golok which Aim at Compatibility of a City Life and a Village Life

Yusuke Bessho

9:30-10:00 Society, Consumption and Gender in Mongolia

Narantuya Danzan

10:00-10:30 Rebuilding Yushu  (PRC): Ongoing Post–Earthquake Spatial Dynamics and Local Responses

Monia Chies

10:30 – 11.00

Tea and Coffee

 

11.00-11:30 Beyond Regional Exceptionalism:  Comparative Frameworks for Studying Resettlement and Urbanization on the Tibetan

Nancy Levine

11:30-12:00 Music, media and Tibetan publics: From dunglen to diaspora

Anna Morcom

12:00-12:30 Effective behavior health education for Tibetan boarding-school students -A case study of Tibetan students in Beijing Tibetan Middle School

Huang Wenjuan

12:30–1:00 New homes, new lives – The social and economic effects of resettlement on Tibetan nomads (Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai Province, PRC)

Kenneth Bauer