Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work has explored the history and cultural politics of █████-building, █████-led development and Buddhist revival among Tibetans in China’s ███████ ████████ ████ since 1992. Her second book, The Battle for Fortune: █████-Led Development, Personhood and █████ among Tibetans in China, published in 2018 by Cornell University Press and the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, is an ethnography of state-local relations in the historically ███████ region of ███████(██ ███████ ████████) in the wake of China’s Great Open the West campaign and during the ████████ █████████ on ███████ ██████.
Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State