Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia

ISBN-13: 9780367361662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 120 str.

Orhon Myadar

Opis

This book explores and contests both outsiders’ projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent their own country as a land of nomads. It speaks to the experiences of societies and cultures that are routinely treated as exotic, primitive or otherwise Other in Euro-American imaginaries.

Spis treści

1. Mongolia, Environment, and Nomadism  2. Making of Nomads: The Nomad Figure and Habitus  3. The Nomad Figure as the Imagined "Other"  4. Performing the Nomadic Identity  5. Mobility, Displacement, and Colonial Violence: The Qing Colonial Period (1650-1911)  6. In the Soviet Shadow (1921-1991)  7. Fenced Land: Discourse of Land in Post-Socialist Mongolia (1990-Present) Conclusion: Whence the Land of Nomads

O autorze

Orhon Myadar is a political geographer at the University of Arizona. She studies the intersection of geography and politics at various scales, specifically how borders of belonging or exclusion shape everyday struggles of underserved and marginalized individuals and communities.