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- Examine how resources (such as minerals, property, land, knowledge, and money) are made, imagined, claimed, allocated, withheld, and contested in rapidly changing economic contexts.
- Critically assess models for economic growth in a mineral-rich country through ethnographic evidence.
- Explore how social relationships and dynamics come to shape economic activities (such as loans, trade, land and mineral rights, and ideas about compensation and corruption) from the ground up.
- Examine how different subjectivities are constituted by, and constitutive of, predictive economic narratives and their implementation in policy.
- Question how political-economic decision-making and processes affect environmental change and ideas about ownership.
- Document the kinds of futures being lived, imagined, desired, and enacted by different social groups.
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ERC Funding
Funded by ERC-2013-CoG, 615785
Project name: Emerging Subjects
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A Brief Timeline of the Recent Anti-Violence Movement in Mongolia
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Mari Valdur is a PhD student at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is currently carrying out her fieldwork looking at reproductive healthcare, gender and personhood in Ulaanbaatar The Publicity of Non-Global Tragedies While the #MeToo and Time's Up movements elsewhere largely remain linked to the rights of individual women, in Mongolia, the mainstream […]