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Title Change in democratic Mongolia : social relations, health, mobile pastoralism, and mining / edited by Julian Dierkes
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 332 pages) : illustrations
Series Brill's Inner Asian library, 1566-7162 ; vol. 25
Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 25.
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
Summary 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 resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
SUBJECT Mongolia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Mongolia
Form Electronic book
Author Dierkes, Julian Beatus, 1970-
LC no. 2012013137
ISBN 9789004231474
9004231471
9781283551014
1283551012
9786613863461
6613863467