Monia CHIES

Position
Researcher
E-mail
monia.chies@unive.it
Academic discipline
Demoethnoanthropological Sciences [SDEA-01/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/monia.chies (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: San Sebastiano

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

Activities and research skills

Publication highlights

Chies M. Post-disaster development among yushu peri-urban nomads: Local agency, risk perception and legal framework (Qinghai Province, PRC) in NOMADIC PEOPLES, vol. 22, pp. 222-248 (ISSN 0822-7942)
DOI 2018, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120769


Monia Chies Post-Earthquake Death Rituality and Cultural Revitalization at the Tibetan Pilgrimage Site of Gyanak Mani in Yushu (West China, Qinghai) , Geografie del Mondo Altro. Prospettive Comparate sugli spazi sacri e l'aldilà. In STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI ISSN 0393-8417, Morcelliana Edizioni, pp. 318-340
2014, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120707


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Monia Chies is a social anthropologist and Tibetologist. In 2020 she received her PhD in Tibetan Studies from Humboldt University Berlin with a dissertation on the post-earthquake reconstruction and revitalization of a Tibetan Buddhist Pilgrimage site in Eastern Tibet (Qinghai, West China). She is a Marie Curie Fellow (2020-2024) at Ca' Foscari University and principal investigator of HYSOTIB on hydro-sociality in the area of the so-called Three River Sources (or China's Water Tower) which are the sources of the Mekong, Yangtze and Yellow River in Qinghai Province.

Research interests: post-disaster, risk and vulnerability studies; cultural and environmental heritage practices; hydro-sociality and river geomorphology; Asian history of explorations; history of the sino-tibetan frontier; ethnography and oral history.

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