Waters, Hedwig Amelia;
(2023)
Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands:
A proportional share.
[Book].
Economic Exposures in Asia.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Since the early 1990s, Mongolia began its hopeful transition from socialism to a market democracy, becoming increasingly dependent on international mining revenue. Both shifts were promised to herald a new age of economic plenty for all. Now, roughly 30 years on, many of Mongolia’s poor and rural feel that they have been forgotten. Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands describes these shifts from the viewpoint of the self-proclaimed ‘excluded’: the rural township of Magtaal on the Chinese border. In the wake of socialism, the population of this resource-rich area found itself without employment and state institutions, yet surrounded by lush nature 30 kilometres from the voracious Chinese market. A two-tiered resource-extractive political-economic system developed. Whilst large-scale, formal, legally sanctioned conglomerates arrived to extract oil and land for international profits, the local residents grew increasingly dependent on the Chinese-funded informal, illegal cross-border wildlife trade. More than a story about rampant capitalist extraction in the resource frontier, this book intimately details the complex inner worlds, moral ambiguities and emergent collective politics constructed by individuals who feel caught in political-economic shifts largely outside of their control. Offering much needed nuance to commonplace descriptions of Mongolia’s post-socialist transition, this study presents rich ethnographic detail through the eyes and voices of the state’s most geographically marginalized. It is of interest not only to experts of political-economy and post-socialist transition, but also to non-academic readers intrigued by the interplay of value(s) and capitalism.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands: A proportional share |
| ISBN: | 9781787358133 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787358133 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787358133 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787358133 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Waters, H.A. 2023. Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787358133 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | anthropology, social anthropology, Mongolia, Asia, economics, migration, trade, ethnography, Moral economy, economic development, political economy,wildlife trade, credit and debt, border, Chinese border, Mongolia, rural, cross-border trade, moralities and ethics, illegality and informality, post-socialism, politics of distribution, the commons, peasant studies, sovereign wealth, share-holding, economics of sharing |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10171657 |
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