Julian Dierkes, PhD (2003) in Sociology, Princeton University, is Associate Professor and Keidanren Chair at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. In addition to his interest in Mongolia, his research focuses on the growth of supplementary education around the world, but especially in Japan.

'...The volume is a useful addition to the studies on modern Mongolia.'Morris Rossabi, Queen's College, CUNY, New York, Pacific Affairs, 86:3.

• List of TablesList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Research on Contemporary Mongolia - Julian DierkesPART I Social Relations1. Finding the Buddha Hidden Below the Sand: Youth, Identity and Narrative in the Revival of Mongolian Buddhism - Matthew King2. Formal and Informal Networks in Post-socialist Mongolia:Access, Uses and Inequalities - Byambajav Dalaibuyan3. Democracy and Risk: Mongolians’ Perspectives - Paula Sabloff4. Local Leaders between Obligation and Corruption:State Workplaces, the Discourse of ‘Moral Decay’, and ‘Eating Money’ in the Mongolian Province - Astrid E. ZimmermannPART II Challenges to the Mongolian Health System5. Did the Social and Economic Transition Cause a Health Crisis in Mongolia? Evidence from Age- and Sex-specific Mortality Trends (1965-2009) - Mungunsarnai Ganbold & Thomas Spoorenberg6. Occupational Safety and the Health of Miners as Challenge to Policy-making in Mongolia? - Oyuntogos LkhasurenPART III The State of Mobile Pastoralism7. Changes in Pastoral Land Use and Their Effects on Rangeland Vegetation Indices -Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey, Joel Sankey, Keith Weber, and Cliff Montagne8. Collaborative Pasture Management, a Solution for Grassland Degradation in Mongolia? - Raffael Himmelsbach9. The Twilight of Pastoralism? Livelihood, Mobility, Differentiation, and Environmental Engagement on the Inner Asian Steppe - Troy SternbergPART IV The Social Context of Mining10. Mining, Resistance and Pastoral Livelihoods in Contemporary Mongolia - Caroline Upton11. The Cultural Logics of Illegality: Living Outside the Law in the Mongolian Gold Mines - Mette High12. Mongolia’s Mining Controversies and the Politics of Place -Sarah Combellick–BidneyConclusions: Mongolia in the First Twenty Years of the 21st Century - Julian Dierkes and Byambajav DalaibuyanBibliographyIndex