PANEL 23 – RURAL COMMUNITIES IN TRANSITION SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND ONE-SIDED DEPENDENCIES IN TIBETAN REGIONS OF CHINA

FRIDAY 24 JUNE (Room N)

Convener: Tashi Nyima

 13.30-13.45: Opening of panel.

13.45-14.15: Tashi Nyima: An analysis of rural Tibetan subject in China’s socio-economic engineering: towards an empowering agenda of development discourse and practice in Tibet.

14.15-14.45: Tenzin Dolkar (Danzeng Zhuoga): Touristification of Barkor – the plan and its implementation.

14.45-15.15: Tea and coffee break

15.15-15.45: Lobsang Yangtso: Nomad resettlement and state subsidies inTibetan areas of Qinghai province 2006-2010, question of livelihood sustainability.

15.45-16.15: Gesang Zhuoma: The implementation effect of new rural cooperative medical policy in pastoral areas in Tibet Autonomous Region – taking the Jiaqiong Second Village as an example.

16.15-16.45: Nyangchak: Tibetan women empowerment and employment: the commercialization of Tibetan embroidery in Amdo Mangra.