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Meditative Revolutions? A Preliminary Approach to US Buddhist Anarchist Literature
(ATLANTIS: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 2020)
This article discusses the various shapes, inner structures and roles given to transformative and liberative practices in the work of US Buddhist anarchist authors (1960-2010). Unlike their Chinese and Japanese predecessors, ...
Decolonising the state: subversion, mimicry and criminality
(Postcolonial Studies, 2020)
This special issue brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to reflect on the decolonisation of nation-states through acts of subversion, mimicry and criminality in the colonial and postcolonial world. Since ...
Why anarchists like zen? A libertarian reading of Shinran (1173-1263). Essays in anarchism and religion
(Stockholm University Press, 2017)
Most attempts to formulate a Buddhist anarchism in the West take Zen Buddhism as their reference point, often disregarding other Buddhist traditions and their anarchic/libertarian potential. In re- sponse to these early ...
The Chanting Frog: Speciesism and the Possibility of Communication in Issa’s Haikus
(Natura Loquens, Natura Agens: In Dialogue and Interaction with the Environment, 2018)
The aim of this paper is to discuss the role of animals, particularly frogs, in Kobayashi Nobuyuki (1763-1827), “Issa” ’s poetry from a perspective that identifies common and parallel threads in Anarchist, Shin Buddhist ...
The Haunted Island-Nation: Irish Intersections in Canary Islands Narratives
(Other Irelands: Revisited, Reinvented, Rewritten, 2014)
This paper focuses on a relatively recent phenomenon: the appropriation of Saint Brendan’s narrative as a tool for utopian Canary Islands nation-building. Being one of the favourite lenses of the Canary Islands imagination ...
Tibetan subjectivities on the global Stage: negotiating dispossession
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)
Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession explores the many ways Tibetans are reimagining their cultural identity since the communist takeover of Tibet in the 1950s. Focusing on developments ...
Lessons Unlearned: Identity and Resistance in Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s Poetry
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
With its analytic focus on the cultural production by Tibetans-in-exile, this volume examines contemporary Tibetan fiction, poetry, music, art, cinema, pamphlets, testimony, and memoir. The twelve case studies highlight ...
The Tibetan-English Novel: A Post-Buddhist Form?
(European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), 2014)
Although most Tibetans who have chosen English as a language of literary expression are poets (e.g. Chögyam Trungpa, Tenzin Tsundue, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Bhuchung Sonam1), there is also a slowly growing number of Tibetans ...
Rojava: a state subverted or reinvented?
(Postcolonial Studies, 2020-04-02)
This article discusses how Rojava and its ‘Autonomous Administration’ simultaneously subvert and reinstate the state(s) they are fighting. Based on Abdullah Öcalan’s (b. 1948) conversion to libertarianism after his ...
Translating the Translator: Identity and Revision in Trungpa Rinpoche’s Buddhism(s)
(IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2017)
By exploring how the literal and metaphorical aspects of the teaching/translating activities of Chögyam Trungpa overlap and feed into each other this paper analyses a highly original process of re-inventing tradition against ...