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 families and places of origin in the process.”

This piece first appeared as Chapter 8 in Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care, edited by Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Sandra Bamford, with an afterword by Marilyn Strathern, as part of the section “Toxic States.”