Politics of Responsibility in an Increasingly Hazardous Climate: The Case of Herding in Post-Socialist Mongolia

This dissertation configures winter disasters in Mongolia as a context for examining the "politics of responsibility" in a post-socialist nation. Winter disasters in Mongolia, called zud, are complex events in which unfavorable environmental, climatic, and weather conditions—such as sparse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ericksen, Annika
Other Authors: Silverstein, Brian E.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/321471