Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia Myadar Orhon
Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia Myadar Orhon This book explores and contests both outsiders' projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying…
Specifikacia Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia Myadar Orhon
Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia Myadar Orhon
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 many societies and cultures that are routinely treated as exotic, romantic, primitive or otherwise different and Other in Euro-American imaginaries, and how these imaginaries are also internally produced by those societies themselves. But to the contrary, the majority of Mongolians have been settled in and around cities and small population centers. The assumption that Mongolia is a nomadic nation is largely predicated upon Mongolia's environmental and climatic conditions, which are understood to make Mongolia suitable for little else than pastoral nomadism.
Even Mongolians who are herders have long been unable to move freely in a smooth space, as dictated by the