Orhon Myadar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orhon Myadar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orhon |
| FAMILY NAME | Myadar |
| SIGNATURE | MYADAR O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0372-2960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Remembering Margaret Walton-Roberts
(1968–2025)I met Margaret only a few times. Yet when I learned of her passing last year, I felt a profound sense of loss that belied the brevity of our acquaintance.We first crossed...
In memoriam
It has been a year since Gender, Place and Culture and the community of feminist geographers lost one of our cherished colleagues, Margaret Walton-Roberts, at the age of 57. Margaret served as an e...
Geographies of Displacement, Belonging, and Home
To examine the layered, complex, and often contradictory processes of displacement and belonging, this special issue brings together a transnational collective of women scholars, including two Indigenous scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand and Hawai‘i who study different facets of human displacement and forced mobility. The central aims of the special issue include three key initiatives: First, we aim to explore the processes through which displac…
Belong
Scholars have long grappled with the concepts of place, self, and social networks in shaping belonging. Drawing on frameworks from phenomenology, feminist geography, and processoriented theories of homing, this article investigates how forced displacement transforms these relationships. Based on six years of ethnographic interviews with refugees in Tucson, Arizona, I analyze three life stories to show that legal liminality, migratory trajectories…
Making and Unmaking Refugees
The power of story
The paper focuses on the power of a single story to bring the human contexts and circumstances that shape refugees' post-resettlement lives to the forefront. Through an ethnographic example, the article brings attention to the lived experience of refugees and dismantles gendered tropes that are rooted in Western and white feminist theoretical frameworks. We do so through the prism of mobility-related challenges that refugees experience after rese…
Making of home
Feminist geopolitics, cinema, and the sensible encounter in American Sniper
Place, Displacement and Belonging
In traditional geopolitical discourses, an individual's very being is routinely tied to and predicated upon the sanctity of the individual's nation-state. The global refugee regime operates upon this assumption and regulates those who have been forcibly displaced from their homelands. Feminist geopolitics offers a way to see beyond the rigid boundaries of nation-states and attend to the embodied, lived, intimate and everyday experiences of people…
Making and Unmaking Refugees
Wars and conflicts around the world take the lives of millions and leave millions more displaced both physically and emotionally. With an unprecedented number of displaced peoples worldwide, the pl
The violence of silencing
In December 2020, the International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE) published an article by Harvard law professor J. Mark Ramseyer, ‘Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War’, that is premised on the unsupported and scholarly-consensus-defying claim that thousands of young women and girls mostly from Korea, who ended up in Japanese military ‘comfort women’ stations during the Pacific War, were paid sex workers. Scholars were quick to criticize R…
Performing the nomadic identity
Chapter 3 discussed how Mongolia’s nomad is constructed and perpetuated as the exotic Other (cf. Edward Said’s Orientalism). It examined various media used to sustain this image of the romantically exotic but ultimately inferior Other. Chapter 4 focuses on the ways this essentializing trope is created in tandem with a national Mongolian master narrative that similarly regards Mongolia as a land of nomads. This chapter examines closely how Mongoli…
Mobility and Displacement
This book explores and contests both outsiders' projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent their own country as a land of nomads.It speaks to the experiences of many societies and cultures that are routinely treated as exotic, romantic, primitive or otherwise different and Other in Euro-American imaginaries, and how these imaginaries are also internally produced by those societies themselves.…
Remembering the ‘comfort women’
The ‘comfort women’ system of the 1930s and 1940s, in which girls and women were coerced to serve as sex slaves for the Imperial Army of Japan, was one of the most systematic and institutionalized forms of violence against female bodies in contemporary world history. In spite of the unparalleled scale and systematic nature of the violence against thousands of women, the world knew little about this system until the 1980s when former ‘comfort wome…
Mom, I want to come home”
Belonging and exclusion
Contradictions of Populism and Resource Extraction
We examine contradictions of populism and resource extraction in Mongolia in the context of the recent presidential election of Khaltmaa Battulga, who is often portrayed as dangerously populist. We consider Battulga’s victory as an echo of Mongolian voters’ sense of dispossession and discontent driven by gross wealth disparity and precarious livelihoods. Rather than treating these concerns as mere tools of the populist political agenda, we view t…
The rebirth of Chinggis Khaan
A massive monument of Chinggis Khaan (Chinggis Khaan's name is spelt differently depending on the language in which it was written and on conventions of transliteration. Among the most common are Chinggis, Genghis, Genghiz, or Jengiz. For the purpose of the paper, the Mongolian transliteration is used.) imposingly gazes down from the government palace in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The monument was erected in 2006 in commemoration …
In the Soviet Shadow
The article aims to broaden the understanding of Soviet politics as a form of colonialism and to deploy the same conceptual tools used in post-colonial critiques that have been typically reserved for critiquing European control of 'distant' lands, both in temporal and spatial dimensions. Closely examining Soviet politics in Mongolia, the article conceptualises the Soviet policies across the vast Soviet-sphere with the post-colonial theoretical fr…
Territorializing national identity in post-socialist Mongolia
This article examines the geographies of new identification and belonging in post-Soviet Mongolia and identifies an increasingly nationalist trend over the past two decades. It explains how Mongolian society has constructed, contested, and renegotiated its national identity with the disappearance of the overarching communist ideology that had dictated the political landscape of the country for nearly seven decades. Conceptually, "national identit…
Mom, I want to come home”
Contradictions of Populism and Resource Extraction
We examine contradictions of populism and resource extraction in Mongolia in the context of the recent presidential election of Khaltmaa Battulga, who is often portrayed as dangerously populist. We consider Battulga’s victory as an echo of Mongolian voters’ sense of dispossession and discontent driven by gross wealth disparity and precarious livelihoods. Rather than treating these concerns as mere tools of the populist political agenda, we view t…
Making and Unmaking Refugees
Wars and conflicts around the world take the lives of millions and leave millions more displaced both physically and emotionally. With an unprecedented number of displaced peoples worldwide, the pl
Making of home
Territorializing national identity in post-socialist Mongolia
This article examines the geographies of new identification and belonging in post-Soviet Mongolia and identifies an increasingly nationalist trend over the past two decades. It explains how Mongolian society has constructed, contested, and renegotiated its national identity with the disappearance of the overarching communist ideology that had dictated the political landscape of the country for nearly seven decades. Conceptually, "national identit…
The power of story
The paper focuses on the power of a single story to bring the human contexts and circumstances that shape refugees' post-resettlement lives to the forefront. Through an ethnographic example, the article brings attention to the lived experience of refugees and dismantles gendered tropes that are rooted in Western and white feminist theoretical frameworks. We do so through the prism of mobility-related challenges that refugees experience after rese…
Place, Displacement and Belonging
In traditional geopolitical discourses, an individual's very being is routinely tied to and predicated upon the sanctity of the individual's nation-state. The global refugee regime operates upon this assumption and regulates those who have been forcibly displaced from their homelands. Feminist geopolitics offers a way to see beyond the rigid boundaries of nation-states and attend to the embodied, lived, intimate and everyday experiences of people…
Remembering the ‘comfort women’
The ‘comfort women’ system of the 1930s and 1940s, in which girls and women were coerced to serve as sex slaves for the Imperial Army of Japan, was one of the most systematic and institutionalized forms of violence against female bodies in contemporary world history. In spite of the unparalleled scale and systematic nature of the violence against thousands of women, the world knew little about this system until the 1980s when former ‘comfort wome…
In the Soviet Shadow
The article aims to broaden the understanding of Soviet politics as a form of colonialism and to deploy the same conceptual tools used in post-colonial critiques that have been typically reserved for critiquing European control of 'distant' lands, both in temporal and spatial dimensions. Closely examining Soviet politics in Mongolia, the article conceptualises the Soviet policies across the vast Soviet-sphere with the post-colonial theoretical fr…
The violence of silencing
In December 2020, the International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE) published an article by Harvard law professor J. Mark Ramseyer, ‘Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War’, that is premised on the unsupported and scholarly-consensus-defying claim that thousands of young women and girls mostly from Korea, who ended up in Japanese military ‘comfort women’ stations during the Pacific War, were paid sex workers. Scholars were quick to criticize R…
The rebirth of Chinggis Khaan
A massive monument of Chinggis Khaan (Chinggis Khaan's name is spelt differently depending on the language in which it was written and on conventions of transliteration. Among the most common are Chinggis, Genghis, Genghiz, or Jengiz. For the purpose of the paper, the Mongolian transliteration is used.) imposingly gazes down from the government palace in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The monument was erected in 2006 in commemoration …
Territorializing national identity in post-socialist Mongolia
This article examines the geographies of new identification and belonging in post-Soviet Mongolia and identifies an increasingly nationalist trend over the past two decades. It explains how Mongolian society has constructed, contested, and renegotiated its national identity with the disappearance of the overarching communist ideology that had dictated the political landscape of the country for nearly seven decades. Conceptually, "national identit…
The rebirth of Chinggis Khaan
A massive monument of Chinggis Khaan (Chinggis Khaan's name is spelt differently depending on the language in which it was written and on conventions of transliteration. Among the most common are Chinggis, Genghis, Genghiz, or Jengiz. For the purpose of the paper, the Mongolian transliteration is used.) imposingly gazes down from the government palace in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The monument was erected in 2006 in commemoration …
In the Soviet Shadow
The article aims to broaden the understanding of Soviet politics as a form of colonialism and to deploy the same conceptual tools used in post-colonial critiques that have been typically reserved for critiquing European control of 'distant' lands, both in temporal and spatial dimensions. Closely examining Soviet politics in Mongolia, the article conceptualises the Soviet policies across the vast Soviet-sphere with the post-colonial theoretical fr…
Belonging and exclusion
Contradictions of Populism and Resource Extraction
We examine contradictions of populism and resource extraction in Mongolia in the context of the recent presidential election of Khaltmaa Battulga, who is often portrayed as dangerously populist. We consider Battulga’s victory as an echo of Mongolian voters’ sense of dispossession and discontent driven by gross wealth disparity and precarious livelihoods. Rather than treating these concerns as mere tools of the populist political agenda, we view t…
Performing the nomadic identity
Chapter 3 discussed how Mongolia’s nomad is constructed and perpetuated as the exotic Other (cf. Edward Said’s Orientalism). It examined various media used to sustain this image of the romantically exotic but ultimately inferior Other. Chapter 4 focuses on the ways this essentializing trope is created in tandem with a national Mongolian master narrative that similarly regards Mongolia as a land of nomads. This chapter examines closely how Mongoli…
Mobility and Displacement
This book explores and contests both outsiders' projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent their own country as a land of nomads.It speaks to the experiences of many societies and cultures that are routinely treated as exotic, romantic, primitive or otherwise different and Other in Euro-American imaginaries, and how these imaginaries are also internally produced by those societies themselves.…
Remembering the ‘comfort women’
The ‘comfort women’ system of the 1930s and 1940s, in which girls and women were coerced to serve as sex slaves for the Imperial Army of Japan, was one of the most systematic and institutionalized forms of violence against female bodies in contemporary world history. In spite of the unparalleled scale and systematic nature of the violence against thousands of women, the world knew little about this system until the 1980s when former ‘comfort wome…
Mom, I want to come home”
The violence of silencing
In December 2020, the International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE) published an article by Harvard law professor J. Mark Ramseyer, ‘Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War’, that is premised on the unsupported and scholarly-consensus-defying claim that thousands of young women and girls mostly from Korea, who ended up in Japanese military ‘comfort women’ stations during the Pacific War, were paid sex workers. Scholars were quick to criticize R…
Making of home
Feminist geopolitics, cinema, and the sensible encounter in American Sniper
Place, Displacement and Belonging
In traditional geopolitical discourses, an individual's very being is routinely tied to and predicated upon the sanctity of the individual's nation-state. The global refugee regime operates upon this assumption and regulates those who have been forcibly displaced from their homelands. Feminist geopolitics offers a way to see beyond the rigid boundaries of nation-states and attend to the embodied, lived, intimate and everyday experiences of people…
Making and Unmaking Refugees
Wars and conflicts around the world take the lives of millions and leave millions more displaced both physically and emotionally. With an unprecedented number of displaced peoples worldwide, the pl
Making and Unmaking Refugees
The power of story
The paper focuses on the power of a single story to bring the human contexts and circumstances that shape refugees' post-resettlement lives to the forefront. Through an ethnographic example, the article brings attention to the lived experience of refugees and dismantles gendered tropes that are rooted in Western and white feminist theoretical frameworks. We do so through the prism of mobility-related challenges that refugees experience after rese…
Belong
Scholars have long grappled with the concepts of place, self, and social networks in shaping belonging. Drawing on frameworks from phenomenology, feminist geography, and processoriented theories of homing, this article investigates how forced displacement transforms these relationships. Based on six years of ethnographic interviews with refugees in Tucson, Arizona, I analyze three life stories to show that legal liminality, migratory trajectories…
Remembering Margaret Walton-Roberts
(1968–2025)I met Margaret only a few times. Yet when I learned of her passing last year, I felt a profound sense of loss that belied the brevity of our acquaintance.We first crossed...
In memoriam
It has been a year since Gender, Place and Culture and the community of feminist geographers lost one of our cherished colleagues, Margaret Walton-Roberts, at the age of 57. Margaret served as an e...
Geographies of Displacement, Belonging, and Home
To examine the layered, complex, and often contradictory processes of displacement and belonging, this special issue brings together a transnational collective of women scholars, including two Indigenous scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand and Hawai‘i who study different facets of human displacement and forced mobility. The central aims of the special issue include three key initiatives: First, we aim to explore the processes through which displac…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (10 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works)