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SUMMARY:Rehearsing the state: the governance practices of the Tibetan Gove
 rnment-in-Exile - Dr Fiona McConnell (Department of Geography\, University
  of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20120611T113000Z
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CONTACT:Thomas J.W. Probert
DESCRIPTION:With the split mandate of continuing the struggle for the home
 land and dealing with the immediate needs of a refugee community\, exile p
 olities have a very particular sense of political temporality. Based on et
 hnographic research on the Tibetan Government-in-Exile based in India\, th
 is paper investigates this active state-in-waiting\; a set of institutions
 \, practices and actors through which this exiled community is experimenti
 ng\, modifying and rehearsing statehood in order to employ it 'for real' b
 ack in the homeland. Bringing critical theories of the state into dialogue
  with geographies of temporality the paper focuses on the idea of rehearsa
 l\, and four cuts at rehearsing exile Tibetan stateness will be explored: 
 rehearsal spaces in terms of the function of exile settlements\; the vario
 us roles adopted and prescribed within the exile community\; scripts devel
 oped for planning the present and imagining the future\; and the role of a
 udiences for these performances of statecraft. In setting the means throug
 h which futures are made present alongside issues of prolonged waiting\, t
 he paper explores how futures are anticipated and acted upon at the scale 
 of the nation\, and examine what happens to these anticipatory logics when
  the time frame is extended indefinitely. More generally\, it will be argu
 ed that this case challenges both teleological assumptions about state-bui
 lding and the presumed correlation between statehood and permanence\, and 
 statelessness and temporariness.
LOCATION:Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Rd\, C
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