Dawa Lokyitsang est une anthropologue culturelle tibéto-américaine qui a obtenu son doctorat à l'Université du Colorado, à Boulder. Elle est actuellement chercheuse postdoctorale à l'International Institute for Asian Studies de l'Université de Leiden, aux Pays-Bas. Ses recherches suivent le colonialisme chinois au Tibet et ses séquelles après la diaspora, examinant l'agentivité et la souveraineté tibétaines à travers la construction d'écoles pour réfugiés, menées par les Tibétains en Inde dans les années 1960 mais également la migration d'anciens étudiants vers l'Ouest, ainsi que les réseaux de construction de leur communauté et de plaidoyer à l'étranger. Elle est également cofondatrice et éditrice de Lhakar Diaries (2011-présent), un espace numérique dédié aux histoires orales tibétaines, à la pensée critique et à la narration ethnographique.
Titre du projet
Resurgent Tibetan Otherwise Worlds
"How can Tibetan experiences and practices help us reimagine crisis, embrace planetary interconnection, and rethink what it means to be human in these catastrophic times in order to rebuild a world habitable for all? This ethnographic book project explores how Tibetan communities in exile have responded to historical trauma and ongoing colonialism with powerful, future-oriented practices of care, education, and solidarity. Following the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet in the 1950s, tens of thousands of Tibetans were forced into exile, fracturing families and displacing entire communities. Yet, in the face of profound loss and dislocation, Tibetans built new worlds — establishing their own schools in India and sustaining transnational kinship networks that continue to thrive across the globe. Based on oral histories from three generations of Tibetan exiles (from the 1960s to the 2000s), this book traces how everyday practices of community care have become acts of anticolonial resistance and ethical worldmaking. Engaging with Black and Indigenous radical thought, Resurgent Tibetan Otherwise Worlds positions Tibetan survival not as passive endurance, but as an insurgent form of relational sovereignty — one that redefines what global solidarity and decolonial futures can look like."
Liste choisie de publications
Lokyitsang, Dawa. 2024. “Kinship Under Colonial Duress: Anti-Colonial Nationalism Mends Ruptured Tibetan Attachments.” Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care, ed. Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Sandra Bamford. Rutgers University Press, pp. 99–110.
Lokyitsang, Dawa. 2024. “Are Tibetans Indigenous? The Political Stakes and Potentiality of the Translation of Indigeneity.” Made in China Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 142–147.
Lokyitsang, Dawa. 2022. “Sovereignty in Settler Colonial Times: Kinship and Education in the Tibetan Exile Community.” American Ethnological Society website, March 3.
Lokyitsang, Dawa. 2020. “The Discursive Art of China's Colonialism: Reconfiguring Tibetan and State Identities.” Tibet Policy Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 29–50.
Lokyitsang, Dawa. 2018. “Who Is a Pure Tibetan? Identity, Intergenerational History, and Trauma in Exile.” Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage, ed. Shelly Bhoil and Enrique Galvan-Alvarez. Lexington Books, pp. 195–211.
