History's motion : on absolute time and space in Tibet Tan, Gillian G. 2011, History's motion : on absolute time and space in Tibet. In Hage, Ghassan and Kowal, Emma (ed), Force, movement, intensity : the Newtonian imagination in the humanities and social sciences, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic, pp.163-175. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads tan-historysmotion-2011.pdf Published version application/pdf 2.36MB 79 Title History's motion : on absolute time and space in Tibet Author(s) Tan, Gillian G. orcid.org/0000-0002-0492-7474 Title of book Force, movement, intensity : the Newtonian imagination in the humanities and social sciences Editor(s) Hage, Ghassan Kowal, Emma Publication date 2011 Chapter number 14 Total chapters 15 Start page 163 End page 175 Total pages 13 Publisher Melbourne University Press Place of Publication Melbourne, Vic Keyword(s) Tibet China history movement temporality Summary On-going contestations to establish the hegemonic narrative of Tibet's history rest on the shared assumption that a true narrative, or history's motion, exists. This essay suggests that history's motion is a continuing legacy of Newton's concepts of absolute time and space, even while the current disputes over Tibet's history point to the limitations of these concepts in practice. ISBN 9780522860818 Language eng Field of Research 160199 Anthropology not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society HERDC Research category B1.1 Book chapter Copyright notice ©2011, Melbourne University Press Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30049196 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 01 Nov 2012, 11:17:29 EST Fri, 02 Nov 2012, 14:11:45 EST Tue, 06 Nov 2012, 16:22:32 EST Wed, 07 Nov 2012, 13:10:51 EST Thu, 08 Nov 2012, 08:16:39 EST Fri, 21 Dec 2012, 08:49:21 EST Tue, 08 Jan 2013, 10:54:37 EST Tue, 22 Jan 2013, 14:50:24 EST Tue, 22 Jan 2013, 14:52:16 EST Thu, 16 Apr 2015, 11:49:52 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 20:03:12 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:37:48 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:18:29 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 593 Abstract Views, 84 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 01 Nov 2012, 11:17:18 EST by Gillian Tan