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Presented By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China

Emily Ting Yeh, Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder

Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China
Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China
In the first decade of the new millennium, many educated and ambitious young Tibetans aspired to work in NGOs to promote community development, cultural preservation, and environmental protection. A decade later, the figure of the entrepreneur has replaced the figure of the NGO-worker, and hopes and dreams are now pinned on the private sector. This talk asks why this has come to be, and explores the practices and cultural politics of Tibetan youth entrepreneurship.

Emily T. Yeh is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. She researches development and nature-society relations, particularly in Tibetan parts of the PRC. This has included studies of the political ecology of pastoralism, vulnerability to and indigenous knowledge of climate change, ideologies of nature and nation, and emerging environmental identities and grassroots environmental activism. Her book "Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development" explored the intersection of the political economy and cultural politics of development as a project of state territorialization. She has also co-edited a number of books and special issues including "Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands," "The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Development and Investment in Asia," and "Rural Politics in Contemporary China."

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Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China
Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China

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