Change in Democratic Mongolia : Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining.
Material type: TextSeries: Brill's Inner Asian LibraryPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (350 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004231474Subject(s): Environmental degradation -- Mongolia | Land use -- Mongolia -- 21st century | Miners -- Health -- Mongolia -- 21st century | Miners -- Mongolia -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Mines and mineral resources -- Mongolia | Mongolia -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Pastoral systems -- Mongolia -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Change in Democratic Mongolia : Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and MiningDDC classification: 306.09517 LOC classification: HN730.8.A8 -- C47 2012ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Change in Democratic Mongolia -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Research on Contemporary Mongolia Julian Dierkes -- PART I: SOCIAL RELATIONS -- Finding the Buddha Hidden below the Sand: Youth, Identity and Narrative in the Revival of Mongolian Buddhism -- Formal and Informal Networks in Post-socialist Mongolia: Access, Uses, and Inequalities -- Democracy and Risk: Mongolians' Perspectives -- Local Leaders between Obligation and Corruption: State Workplaces, the Discourse of 'Moral Decay', and 'Eating Money' in the Mongolian Province -- PART II: CHALLENGES TO THE MONGOLIAN HEALTH SYSTEM -- Did the Social and Economic Transition Cause a Health Crisis in Mongolia? Evidence from Age- and Sex-Specific Mortality Trends (1965-2009) -- Occupational Safety and the Health of Miners as Challenge to Policy-Making in Mongolia? -- PART III: THE STATE OF MOBILE PASTORALISM -- Changes in Pastoral Land Use and Their Effects on Rangeland Vegetation Indices -- Collaborative Pasture Management: A Solution for Grassland Degradation in Mongolia? -- The Twilight of Pastoralism? Livelihood, Mobility, Differentiation, and Environmental Engagement on the Inner Asian Steppe -- PART IV: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF MINING -- Mining, Resistance and Pastoral Livelihoods in Contemporary Mongolia -- The Cultural Logics of Illegality: Living Outside the Law in the Mongolian Gold Mines -- Mongolia's Mining Controversies and the Politics of Place -- Conclusion: Mongolia in the First Twenty Years of the 21st Century -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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