Depend on Each Other and Don't Just Sit: The Socialist Legacy, Responsibility, and Winter Risk among Mongolian Herders.
In: Human Organization, Jg. 73 (2014-03-01), Heft 1, S. 38-49
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Discourses of Mongolian herders as "lazy" and "irresponsible" often emerge in the context of severe winters. Since Mongolia's transition from socialism to capitalism, a neoliberal emphasis on individual agency has contributed to a blame-the-victim phenomenon when herders lose livestock to severe winters. Many foreign development professionals and Mongolians alike believe that socialism produced a population of "lazy" herders who continue to rely on aid during severe winters rather than working hard to safeguard their own livelihoods. This paper argues that the legacy of socialism is more complicated, building off of pre-socialist institutions and, in the present era of Western-sponsored development, complementing neoliberal emphases to a degree that has gone unrecognized. Socialism did not produce universal apathy toward work among Mongolia's herders. It did, however, contribute to current discourses of work, risk, and responsibility, including "lazy herder" discourses. The paper concludes by arguing that in an era of economic uncertainty and climatic and environmental change, discourses of herders as lazy and irresponsible threaten to obfuscate the problem of rural vulnerability to natural hazards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Depend on Each Other and Don't Just Sit: The Socialist Legacy, Responsibility, and Winter Risk among Mongolian Herders.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Ericksen, Annika |
Zeitschrift: | Human Organization, Jg. 73 (2014-03-01), Heft 1, S. 38-49 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2014 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0018-7259 (print) |
DOI: | 10.17730/humo.73.1.e218g65507n665u0 |
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