Inner Mongolian poetry and song as a form of resistance
Segura, Jesse (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Sekulova, Filka Tsvetkova (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3))

Date:	2024
Abstract:	Against the backdrop of cultural assimilation policies taking place in Inner Mongolia and associated with a political regime geared to economic expansion, this article seeks to explore in which ways Mongolian poetry and song are being mobilized as a tacit and non-violent mode of resistance. Resistance in this paper does not only refer to challenging an immediate power structure with the objective of changing the status quo. Defined through a wider epistemological lens, it represents actions that continually empower the individual and the group to have autonomy over their history and future. We argue that by providing a means to contest, or reject the sanitized, stripped, and depoliticized Mongolian identity pushed by the Chinese state, poetry and songs serve as acts and spaces of resistance and emancipation, upheld by the continuous co-creation, and defense of collective memories.
Grants:	Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-00975
Note:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Decoloniality ; Degrowth ; Indigenous knowledge ; Poem ; Resistance ; Song
Published in:	Political Geography, Vol. 115 (November 2024) , art. 103214, ISSN 0962-6298

DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103214

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