”Specutaclar Compassion” by Charlene Makley

Charlene Makley “Specutaclar Compassion: “Natural” Disasters and NationalMourning in China’s Tibet” Critical Asian Studies 46-3, pp.371-404, 2014 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14672715.2014.935132


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Abstractに曰く、


China’s “Olympic Year” (2007–2008) was a watershed moment for the country and its ruling Chinese Communist Party. In this article, the author draws on her fieldwork experience as one of the few foreigners living in rural Tibetan regions during the Tibetan unrest in spring 2008 to consider the implications of the Olympic year from the margins of the state. Taking inspiration from recent anthropological debates about the nature of humanitarianism and sovereignty in neo- liberaland post-socialist states, the author considers the Tibetan unrest and the Sichuan earthquake that occurred just three weeks later on 12 May as particularly emblematic disastrous events linked by a new biopolitics of “charity” or “compassion” (Ch.aixin) in the context of state-led disaster relief. To get at the contested nature of morality and sovereignty in practice, the author focuses on nationally televised post- quake death rituals in which statist abstract compassion for lost Chinese citizens confronted the universalized compassion of embattled Tibetan Buddhist monastic communities.
2008年の「チベットの社会不安」に関しては、http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080318/1205811317 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080319/1205892199 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080321/1206072743 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080325/1206379769 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080411/1207885619 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080519/1211138395 で言及している。
2008年の四川大地震については、 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080513/1210644527 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080519/1211168516 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080521/1211335728 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080520/1211251523 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080523/1211476412 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080605/1212682633 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080608/1212907235 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080610/1213025511 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080613/1213324521 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080619/1213880351 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080620/1213934624 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080625/1214362671 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080717/1216269972 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080809/1218252114 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20081224/1230088629 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090723/1248375159 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100719/1279512424 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20101126/1290786025 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20101217/1292560298 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110119/1295413610 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110601/1306897154 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110617/1308337377 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20130427/1367081697 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20140805/1407169273