@inbook{553d4a85684246228c590ceea3115223,
title = "Peaceful countryside: ecologies of longing and the temporality of flux in contemporary Mongolia",
abstract = "What does it mean to recall an idealised homeland? This chapter focuses on the evocation of a bucolic 'peaceful countryside' in contemporary Mongolia precisely at a time when economic and environmental transformations place a distance between such imagery and everyday experience. Drawing on fieldwork in Mungunmorit sum, Tuv province, the chapter takes as its principal ethnographic focus an encounter between researchers, schoolchildren and their landscape, and the writer G. Mend-Ooyo. Through this encounter, we explore how apparent nostalgia offers a potent way of speaking about a desired present in the face of major environmental challenges.",
keywords = "Children, Herding, Identity, Literature, Landscape, Mongolia, Nostalgia",
author = "Irvine, {Richard Denis Gerard}",
note = "Funding: This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project grant {\textquoteleft}Pathways to understanding the changing climate: time and place in cultural learning about the environment{\textquoteright} (AH/K006282/1).",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1515/9781789208948-010",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781789208931",
series = "Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology",
publisher = "Berghahn",
pages = "145--165",
editor = "Olivia Ang{\'e} and David Berliner",
booktitle = "Ecological nostalgias",
address = "United States",
}