Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia

Riamsara Kuyakanon is a Senior Research Associate at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK. Hildegard Diemberger is Research Director at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit & Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK. David Sneath is the Caroline Humphrey Professor of the Anthropology of Inner Asia at the Department of Social Anthropology and Director of the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

I: Introduction: Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Introduction (Riam Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger, David Sneath) II: Cosmopolitical Landscapes and Ecologies of Practice 1. When Lha Lu Spirits Suffer and Sometimes Fight Back: Tibetan Cosmopolitics in Times of Environmental Threats and Climate Change (Hildegard Diemberger) 2. Territorial Cults in Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Mobilizing Spirits for Local Identity and Environmental Protection (Yudru Tsomu) 3. Up in Smoke: Cosmopolitical Ecologies and the Disappearing Spirits of the Land in Thailand’s Agricultural Air Pollution (Julia Cassaniti) III: Communities and Cosmos: Place-based Knowledges and Practices 4. Balancing the Sacred Landscape: Environmental Management in Limi North-Western Nepal (Astrid Hovden & Hanna Havnevik) 5. ‘Mother’ Memorials and the Cosmopolitics of Environment in Buryatia (Caroline Humphrey) 6. Behind the Façade: Unseen Faces of Japan (David C. Lewis) IV: Cosmopolitics and the Contemporary State 7. Knowing the Lords of the Land: Cosmopolitical Dynamics and Historical Change in Mongolia (David Sneath & Elizabeth Turk) 8. Speaking of Mountain Deities Beyond the County Border: Postsocialist Cosmopolitics and State Territoriality in Inner Mongolia, China (Thomas White) 9. Contesting the Chinese Taiga: Spirits, Reindeer, and Environmental Conservation in Northeast China (Richard Fraser) V: Cosmopolitical Ecologies for the 21st Century 10. Cosmopolitical ecologies of COVID-19 in Bhutan: Repurposing Ritual and Re-presenting Realities (Riamsara Kuyakanon & Dorji Gyeltshen) 11. Sharing a Room with Sparrows: Maulana Azad and Muslim Ecological Thought (Anand Vivek Taneja) 12. Druids and Jhakris: Place-based Conservation and Conversations Between Spirits and Spirit-workers from Britain and Nepal (Jonathan Woolley) VI: Afterword 13. Cosmopolitical Ecologies in Translation (Hildegard Diemberger, Riam Kuyakanon, David Sneath)