Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production
Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production
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代表不丹：对知识生产政治的批判性分析
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2021
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N. Kaul
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N. Kaul
摘要外界关于不丹的历史知识通常依赖于通过联合收割机结合旅行和战略叙述的叙述来理解地方和人民的主导透镜。在这篇文章中，我将对这些叙述的复杂的分层行程进行调查，以证明他们的帝国精神是如何被忽视或淡化的。我批判性地分析了不丹知识形成的系统性、选择性和定位性。我发现，帝国的知识生产努力往往被投射为随意和无意的，没有偏见，没有意识到它的计算，也没有意识到它如何以牺牲本土其他人及其世界观为代价来优先考虑自己的利益。因此，关于不丹的知识来源与该地区的权力历史有关，其特点是随着时间的推移，其观点被听取和复制的不对称性。不丹是世界上一个边缘的非西方地区，受到多重和重叠的帝国势力的影响，了解不丹的知识制造政治有可能为其他类似的未充分研究的地区提供信息。
ABSTRACT Historical knowledge production about Bhutan by outsiders has generally relied upon the dominant lens of understanding the place and people through accounts that combine narratives of travel and strategy. In this article, I interrogate the complexly layered itinerary of such accounts to demonstrate how their imperial ethos has either been ignored or underplayed. I critically analyse the systematicity, selectivity, and the positionality in knowledge-making on Bhutan. I find that imperial knowledge production endeavour tends to be projected as casual and unintentional, innocent of its biases, unaware of its calculations, and oblivious to how it prioritises its own interests at the expense of the native Others and their worldviews. Thus, the sourcing of knowledge on Bhutan is linked to the histories of power in the region and marked by asymmetries in terms of whose views were heard and reproduced over time. Understanding the politics of knowledge-making on Bhutan – constructed as a peripheral non-Western region of the world, and having been subjected to multiple and overlapping imperial forces – has the potential to inform, and be informed by, other similar understudied areas.