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Pandemic Nationalism in Inner Asia: Unsettling Ideologies and Affective Imaginaries book cover

1st Edition

Pandemic Nationalism in Inner Asia Unsettling Ideologies and Affective Imaginaries

Edited By Elizabeth Turk, David Sneath Copyright 2027
162 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an ethnographic analysis of nationalist thought, centralized power, and modes of governance in (post-)pandemic Mongolian political and cultural contexts. By reframing the unity often associated with descriptive ‘groupist’ thought in terms of claims and objects of concern within a wider political imaginary, this book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding... Read more

Introduction: Nationalist imaginaries and the COVID pandemic in inner Asia: notes towards an analytic methodology

David Sneath and Elizabeth Turk

 

1. The Mongolian state and the coronavirus pandemic: policy, messaging and the nationalist imaginary

Joanna Dolińska and David Sneath

 

2. Iterations from the past: a no-nonsense approach to the importers of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia

Tuya Shagdar

 

3. Traditional medicine, legitimacy and nationalist doxa in pandemic-era Mongolia

Elizabeth Turk

 

4. The crisis-events and reassembled ethnolinguistic-cum-environmentalist subjects in Inner Mongolia

Gegentuul Baioud

 

5. Reclaiming self-esteem: Mongols’ responses to the early COVID-19 pandemic in Inner Mongolia, China

Uranchimeg Borjign Ujeed

 

6. Kinship imaginaries of similarity and difference: gifts from Inner Mongols to Mongolia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Elizabeth Turk, Uranchimeg Ujeed and Thomas White

 

 

Biography

Elizabeth Turk is a social anthropologist and Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University where she is PI of the Wellcome Trust-funded project, Accessing the Wellbeing Commons: Therapeutic resource-ification of natural and historic environments and social exclusion in the UK and Inner Asia.

David Sneath is Professor of the Anthropology of Inner Asia and Director of the Mongolian & Inner Asia Studies Unit of the University of Cambridge. He specialises in the anthropology of Inner Asia, particularly Mongolia, focusing on political economy and ecology, land use and the environment, and post-socialist transformation. 

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