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Researching transnational activist lives: Irish Buddhists and the British Empire.
- Source :
- Interface: A Journal on Social Movements; Nov2016, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p171-183, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This research note explores some methodological challenges arising from biographical research on early Irish Buddhists in the colonial period. It briefly situates the role of such figures in relation to Asian anti-colonial movements and highlights the research challenges posed by multiple languages and countries, the variable preservation and digitisation of different kinds of sources, and the polarisation provoked by such figures. Practical solutions include international collaboration, digitisation, and a combination of quasiphilological precision and quasi-ethnographic understanding. The note highlights three relevant findings: a relativisation of the importance of organisations, a greater appreciation of the meanings of failure, and a historical materialist approach to possibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BUDDHISTS
SOCIAL movements
IMPERIALISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20092431
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Interface: A Journal on Social Movements
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123032134