The New Mongolian State Herder: Examining Invocations and Improvisations of the State in Rural Mongolia.
This article aims to advance understandings of contemporary state-making in rural Mongolia, contingent on historical processes rather than a taken-for-granted natural category. Writing on postsocialist Mongolia often emphasizes the "retreat of the state" in rural areas; this article offers a counter...
| Publicado en: | Annals of the American Association of Geographers Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. 882 - 899 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2020
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