The Lama Question: Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia 9780824838577
Before becoming the second socialist country in the world (after the Soviet Union) in 1921, Mongolia had been a Buddhist
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Dramatis Personae and Terms
Map of Mongolian Provinces
Introduction: There Are No Counterrevolutionaries Here
1. Technologies of Exception, Governmentality, and the Contingent State
2. The Geopolitics of Exception
Part I. The First Technology of Exception: The Construction of the New
3. Women, Literacy, and Other Dangerous Things
4. Counting (on) the Living Gods
5. Samdan, the Special Commission, and the Rule of Law
6. Rebellions, War, and Aftermaths
Part II. The Second Technology of Exception: Ineffective Persuasions and Accommodation
7. Surveillance and Control: The Religious Administration and the Government Representatives
8. A Tale of Two Lamas: Gonchigjantsan and Agvaanjamyan
Part III. The Third Technology of Exception: The Turn to Violence, Resignation, and Defeat
9. The Yonzon Hamba and the Center Counterrevolutionary Group
10. Closed and Destroyed Monasteries: The Aftermath
Conclusion: Violence and the Contingent State
Notes
Reference List
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Dramatis Personae and Terms
Map of Mongolian Provinces
Introduction: There Are No Counterrevolutionaries Here
1. Technologies of Exception, Governmentality, and the Contingent State
2. The Geopolitics of Exception
Part I. The First Technology of Exception: The Construction of the New
3. Women, Literacy, and Other Dangerous Things
4. Counting (on) the Living Gods
5. Samdan, the Special Commission, and the Rule of Law
6. Rebellions, War, and Aftermaths
Part II. The Second Technology of Exception: Ineffective Persuasions and Accommodation
7. Surveillance and Control: The Religious Administration and the Government Representatives
8. A Tale of Two Lamas: Gonchigjantsan and Agvaanjamyan
Part III. The Third Technology of Exception: The Turn to Violence, Resignation, and Defeat
9. The Yonzon Hamba and the Center Counterrevolutionary Group
10. Closed and Destroyed Monasteries: The Aftermath
Conclusion: Violence and the Contingent State
Notes
Reference List
Index
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- Christopher Kaplonski
