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

Author(s)

• Dierkes, Julian Beatus

Bibliographic Information

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

edited by Julian Dierkes

（Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 25）

Brill, 2012

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-327) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 and the role of social networks, perceptions of risk, the general state of health of the population and the impact that mining activities will have on this. The changes of patterns of nomadism are equally central to an understanding of contemporary Mongolia as the economic focus on natural resources.

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Research on Contemporary Mongolia - Julian Dierkes PART I Social Relations 1. Finding the Buddha Hidden Below the Sand: Youth, Identity and Narrative in the Revival of Mongolian Buddhism - Matthew King 2. Formal and Informal Networks in Post-socialist Mongolia:Access, Uses and Inequalities - Byambajav Dalaibuyan 3. Democracy and Risk: Mongolians' Perspectives - Paula Sabloff 4. Local Leaders between Obligation and Corruption:State Workplaces, the Discourse of 'Moral Decay', and 'Eating Money' in the Mongolian Province - Astrid E. Zimmermann PART II Challenges to the Mongolian Health System 5. Did the Social and Economic Transition Cause a Health Crisis in Mongolia? Evidence from Age- and Sex-specific Mortality Trends (1965-2009) - Mungunsarnai Ganbold & Thomas Spoorenberg 6. Occupational Safety and the Health of Miners as Challenge to Policy-making in Mongolia? - Oyuntogos Lkhasuren PART III The State of Mobile Pastoralism 7. Changes in Pastoral Land Use and Their Effects on Rangeland Vegetation Indices -Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey, Joel Sankey, Keith Weber, and Cliff Montagne 8. Collaborative Pasture Management, a Solution for Grassland Degradation in Mongolia? - Raffael Himmelsbach 9. The Twilight of Pastoralism? Livelihood, Mobility, Differentiation, and Environmental Engagement on the Inner Asian Steppe - Troy Sternberg PART IV The Social Context of Mining 10. Mining, Resistance and Pastoral Livelihoods in Contemporary Mongolia - Caroline Upton 11. The Cultural Logics of Illegality: Living Outside the Law in the Mongolian Gold Mines - Mette High 12. Mongolia's Mining Controversies and the Politics of Place -Sarah Combellick-Bidney Conclusions: Mongolia in the First Twenty Years of the 21st Century - Julian Dierkes and Byambajav Dalaibuyan Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB10695930
• ISBN:
  • 9789004224346
• LCCN: 2012013137
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 332 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN730.8.A8
  • DC23 : 306.09517
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mongolia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Land use -- Mongolia -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Mines and mineral resources -- Mongolia
  • LCSH : Miners -- Mongolia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Miners -- Health -- Mongolia -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Pastoral systems -- Mongolia -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Environmental degradation -- Mongolia
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA53460636