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

• Superior document: Brill's Inner Asian library, volume 25
• TeilnehmendeR: Dierkes, Julian Beatus, 1970-
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Research on Contemporary Mongolia /; 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 /; 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? /; 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 /; 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 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283551012; 9786613863461; 9004231471
• ISSN: 1566-7162
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Julian Dierkes.

Some 100 years ago, Mongolia gained independence from Qing China, and more than 20 years ago it removed itself from the collapsing Soviet Bloc. Since then, the country has been undergoing momentous social, economic and political changes. 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.