Change in democratic Mongolia : social relations, health, mobile pastoralism, and mining

Change in democratic Mongolia : social relations, health, mobile pastoralism, and mining / edited by Julian Dierkes.

The contributions in Change in Democratic Mongolia: Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining represent analyses from around the world across the social sciences and form a substantial part of the state of the art of research on contemporary Mongolia. Chapters examine Buddhist revival...

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Other Authors: Dierkes, Julian Beatus, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012, ©2012.
Series:Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 25.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Land use > Mongolia > 21st century.
Mines and mineral resources > Mongolia.
Miners > Mongolia > Social conditions > 21st century.
Miners > Health > Mongolia > 21st century.
Pastoral systems > Mongolia > 21st century.
Environmental degradation > Mongolia.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Environmental degradation
Land use
Miners > Social conditions
Mines and mineral resources
Pastoral systems
Social conditions
Mongolia > Social conditions > 21st century.
Mongolia
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: research on contemporary Mongolia / Julian Dierkes
  • Funding the Buddha hidden below the sand: youth, identity and narrative in the revival of Mongolian Buddhism / Matthew King
  • Formal and informal networks in post-socialist Mongolia: access, uses, inequalities / Byambajav Dalaibuyan
  • Democracy and risk: Mongolians' perspectives / Paula Sabloff
  • Local leaders between obligation and corruption: state workplaces, the discourse of "moral decay", and "eating money" in the Mongolian Province / Astrid E. Zimmermann
  • Did the social and economic transition cause a health crisis in Mongolia?: evidence from age- and sex-specific mortality trends (1965-2009) / Mungunsarnai Ganbold and Thomas Spoorenberg
  • Occupational safety and the health of miners as challenge to policy-making in Mongolia? / Oyuntogos Lkhasuren
  • Changes in pastoral land use and their effects on rangeland vegetation indices / Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey, Joel Sankey, Keith Weber, and Cliff Montagne
  • Collaborative pasture management: a solution for grassland degradation in Mongolia? / Raffael Himmelsbach
  • The twilight of pastoralism?: livelihood, mobility, differentiation, and environmental engagement on the Inner Asian steppe / Troy Sternberg
  • Mining, resistance and pastoral livelihoods in contemporary Mongolia / Caroline Upton
  • The cultural logics of illegality: living outside the law in the Mongolian gold mines / Mette M. High
  • Mongolia's mining controversies and the politics of place / Sarah Combellick-Bidney
  • Mongolia in the first twenty years of the 21st century / Julian Dierkes and Byambajav Dalaibuyan.

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