Zhaxi Duojie

  • Ph.D. University of baby直播app Boulder 2020
  • Development Geography; Migration Geography, Geography of China, Tibetan Plateau
  • HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Dissertation title: 

Tibetan Farmers in Transition:  Urbanization, Development and Labor Migration in Amdo.  

Research

My dissertation research focuses on the relationships between state development projects and urban labor migration and how the cultural politics of contemporary Chinese modernity shapes decisions about both house-building and migration. Using ethnographic methods, my doctoral research project examines how social, cultural, political-baby直播app factors intersect to influence Tibetan labor migration and with what effects on Tibetan identities in Amdo, situated in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, and how experiences of urban living, in turn, change the aspirations and identities of Tibetan labor migrants. In my research, I conceive migration as a political process rather than an baby直播app event and make migrant identities and subjectivities a focus of analysis. 

Honors and Awards

December 22, 2016. The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences Research Grant, University of baby直播app, Boulder. 鈥淭ibetan Farmers in Transition: Urbanization, Development and Labor Migration in Amdo,鈥 $1,000

September 22, 2017: Mabel Duncan memorial Scholarship Award, Department of Geography, University of baby直播app, Boulder, $3,000

March 1, 2018: Awarded an  Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) grant. The award will support his dissertation research project titled "Tibetan Farmers in Transition: Urbanization, Development, and Labor Migration in Amdo."

Faculty Advisor: Emily Yeh