Dawa Lokyitsang

China’s Socialist Development in Tibet: Dispossession & Settler Colonial Governance | Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang | GENEVA FORUM 2026, Switzerland I delivered this presentation at the 6th Geneva Forum on February 9, 2026. The talk explores how China’s socialist modernization policies in Tibet since 1950 have reshaped Indigenous Tibetan life, …

At the Geneva Forum, @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social argued that China’s “socialist development” in Tibet functions as #settlercolonial governance: reshaping #Tibetan society, dispossessing Indigenous systems, & consolidating control under the banner of modernisation. lhakardiaries.com/2026/02/26/c...

Entangled Territories: Conversations on Home + Diasporas - Museum of Anthropology at UBC Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images was developed in collaboration with Tibetan Canadian community members and artists, showcasing Tibet and Tibetans through their own voices and...

Folks in Vancouver, British Columbia, I will be in Canada as part of the "Entangled Territories: Conversations on Home + Diaspora" on March 11th at 5:30pm presented by Museum of Anthropology, UBC Himalaya Program, and UBC Asian Studies. Register to attend moa.ubc.ca/event/entang...

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center Transfers Tibetan Buddhist Heritage to Harvard & Dismisses Tibetan Staff BDRC, an organization run and governed by non-Tibetans but built on decades of Tibetan labor, scholarship, and interpretation, is quietly transferring its Tibetan-owned Buddhist archive to a Harvar…

Preservation or Dispossession? "These texts, hidden and preserved at great personal risk by Tibetan Lamas (Buddhist masters) from Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution and entrusted to BDRC to safeguard Tibetan heritage, are now slipping out of Tibetan control."

Kinship Under Colonial Duress: Anticolonial Nationalism Mends Ruptured Tibetan Attachments “How does colonialism shape Tibetan experiences of kinship? China’s colonial occupation of Tibet forced Kalden to leave Tibet not ones but twice, fracturing and rupturing attachments to…

"How does colonialism shape Tibetan experiences of kinship? China's colonial occupation of Tibet forced Kalden to leave Tibet not ones but twice, fracturing and rupturing attachments to families and places of origin in the process."

In the book: Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship & Care

Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang gives a talk. Lokyitsang, a Tibetan-American anthropologist, spoke on how Tibetans fleeing from Chinese colonialism found their chosen families among other refugees in India. Photo credit: Abigail Hebert

@dawalokyitsang.bsky.social showing how #Tibetans under Chinese #colonialism built chosen families in exile, using schools like TCV in India to create kinship beyond blood, grounded in shared history, loss, & resistance. 🌱 #Resilience
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China's Quiet Push in India - China Media Project Indian scholar Sriparna Pathak examines how China seeks to influence India's diverse media landscape through academic infiltration and digital manipulation.

How is language important? Media expert Sriparna Pathak discusses how China sponsors Indian journalists to visit Tibet, who return calling it "Xizang." The terminology normalizes not just China's sovereignty over Tibet but also Chinese territorial claims in dispute with India.

Catastrophe on the roof of the world As the source of 10 major rivers that sustain nearly 20% of the world’s population, the Plateau’s degradation threatens regional water security, food systems and biodiversity.

Ignoring China’s abuse of Tibet’s water and other resources will cost the planet, argues Brahma Chellaney www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

When Tibetan Women Speak, Are We Heard? Challenging Etic Frameworks in Tibetan Gender Studies There is a growing trend among non-Tibetan scholars—primarily those from Western or Chinese backgrounds—to analyze Tibetan women’s experiences through frameworks focused on gendered roles, marginal…

When Tibetan Women Speak, Are We Heard? My latest piece challenges how etic frameworks in #TibetanStudies marginalize emic voices & serve imperial logics: lhakardiaries.com/2025/05/19/w...