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Seeing environmental violence in deep time : perspectives from contemporary Mongolian literature and music

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Date
01/05/2018
Author
Irvine, Richard D. G.
Keywords
Mongolia
Landscape
Time
Aridification
Lake shrinkage
Dust
Rap
GN Anthropology
T-NDAS
BDC
SDG 15 - Life on Land
SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Abstract
What does it mean to do violence in deep time? How is deep time evoked in our understanding of environmental harm? Environmental transformations have figured prominently in the recent history of Mongolia. Shifts in land-use have been associated with severe pasture degradation, and the precarity of herding livelihoods has been a factor accelerating urbanisation. Most recently, the intensification of mining activity has been a particular source of social and economic change. These contexts have led to a political and religious re-evaluation of human relationships with the land. This paper focuses on literary and musical interventions (particularly rap music in the first part of the paper, and the literary work of G. Mend-Ooyo in the later part of the paper) which draw attention to this changing relationship with the environment, portraying it as a potential rupture. We explore how these works domesticate deep time, nesting personal histories within the temporal depth of the landscape and cross-hatching biographical, mythological, and geological understandings of time. Yet we then see how this domestication comes to be threatened by developments which sever the relationship between people and land, leading to the disturbing prospect of being left stranded in the face of an inhospitable deep time.
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Irvine , R D G 2018 , ' Seeing environmental violence in deep time : perspectives from contemporary Mongolian literature and music ' , Environmental Humanities , vol. 10 , no. 1 , pp. 257-272 . https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-4385562
Publication
Environmental Humanities
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-4385562
ISSN
2201-1919
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2018 Richard D. G. Irvine. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
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This work has been supported by the AHRC project grant “Pathways to Understanding the Changing Climate: Time and Place in Cultural Learning about the Environment” (AH/K006282/1).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16912

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