Mari Valdur
Biographic Data
| ID | 236984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mari Valdur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mari |
| FAMILY NAME | Valdur |
| SIGNATURE | VALDUR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3300-5599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Legal but informal abortion: Reproductive governance and health(care) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Extraordinary Estonians, disappearing Duha: Tourism imaginaries and imperial identity economies of Northern Mongolia
Similarly to other ‘disappearing’ exoticized groups, ‘the Duha’ in Northern Mongolia are subject to touristic fascination. Covering the background to tourism in the area, this ethnographic article shows how tour operators and regional geographies of imagination enforce imaginaries of ‘the Duha’ as reindeer-herding non-moderns. The accounts of tourists of various backgrounds, including the case of the ‘Estonians’, indicate the centrality of the pr…
Vitality in the Bone Marrow: Qualities and Capacities of the Substance in Mongolia
Anthropological and regional studies have covered in some depth the symbolic and agentive qualities of certain bodily substances, such as bone, blood and flesh. This article reviews some of the contexts and accounts that involve bone marrow in Mongolia. These include its consumption as food, its use as a political metaphor, its role in traditional Mongolian medicine, its significance in patrilineal kinship and biomedical discourses, and its place…
Lectio Praecursoria: Life and Abortion: The Post-Biopolitics of Reproductive Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The lectio serves as an introduction to the thesis 'Life and Abortion: The Post-Biopolitics of Reproductive Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia', an ethnographic study of the ways the insecurities and vulnerabilities of informal abortion are produced and maintained in a context where abortion is legal. Throughout the thesis I maintain that the answer to this question has to do with particular and gendered forms of governance rather than individual ex…
Lectio Praecursoria: Life and Abortion: The Post-Biopolitics of Reproductive Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The lectio serves as an introduction to the thesis 'Life and Abortion: The Post-Biopolitics of Reproductive Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia', an ethnographic study of the ways the insecurities and vulnerabilities of informal abortion are produced and maintained in a context where abortion is legal. Throughout the thesis I maintain that the answer to this question has to do with particular and gendered forms of governance rather than individual ex…
Lectio Praecursoria: Life and Abortion: The Post-Biopolitics of Reproductive Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The lectio serves as an introduction to the thesis 'Life and Abortion: The Post-Biopolitics of Reproductive Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia', an ethnographic study of the ways the insecurities and vulnerabilities of informal abortion are produced and maintained in a context where abortion is legal. Throughout the thesis I maintain that the answer to this question has to do with particular and gendered forms of governance rather than individual ex…
Vitality in the Bone Marrow: Qualities and Capacities of the Substance in Mongolia
Anthropological and regional studies have covered in some depth the symbolic and agentive qualities of certain bodily substances, such as bone, blood and flesh. This article reviews some of the contexts and accounts that involve bone marrow in Mongolia. These include its consumption as food, its use as a political metaphor, its role in traditional Mongolian medicine, its significance in patrilineal kinship and biomedical discourses, and its place…
Legal but informal abortion: Reproductive governance and health(care) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Extraordinary Estonians, disappearing Duha: Tourism imaginaries and imperial identity economies of Northern Mongolia
Similarly to other ‘disappearing’ exoticized groups, ‘the Duha’ in Northern Mongolia are subject to touristic fascination. Covering the background to tourism in the area, this ethnographic article shows how tour operators and regional geographies of imagination enforce imaginaries of ‘the Duha’ as reindeer-herding non-moderns. The accounts of tourists of various backgrounds, including the case of the ‘Estonians’, indicate the centrality of the pr…
Abortion (2 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (2 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (2 works) · Soviet and Russian History (2 works) · Accountability (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Biopower (1 works) · Bone marrow (1 works) · China (1 works) · Consumption (sociology (1 works)