Introduction: market adaptations, interventions and daily experience

Abstract

This special issue illuminates diverse realities of post-Soviet development in Central Asia through a multidisciplinary prism. The contributing articles are grounded in a range of social science disciplines including architecture, anthropology and geography, as well as drawing from mainstream social sciences. The analyses demonstrate how a synthesis of specialist knowledge from area studies and individual disciplinary methodologies can provide well-grounded critical positions on development.

Capitalism in Mongolia – ideology, practice and ambiguity

“…Complementing other studies in the region that focus on large-scale economic and development perspectives (Bayulgen 2003;Özcan 2015), the contributions to this special issue situate their discussions on how people living in this environment create diverse economic forms, decisions and imaginaries as they experience the trajectory of these economic oscillations. The articles look at how different Mongolians are currently situating themselves within the ever-deepening gradations of crisis that have formed a climate of 'crisis ordinary' (Empson 2016, citing Berlant 2011 over the past two years.…”