H A Waters
Biographic Data
| ID | 44371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H A Waters |
| GIVEN NAMES | H A |
| FAMILY NAME | Waters |
| SIGNATURE | WATERS H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6203-0550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aspirational laws
Since Mongolia's transition from socialism in 1991, wild medicinal plants have been harvested from public lands and exported to diverse Asian medicinal markets. This article examines how the post-socialist, market-democratic state has struggled both to regulate the illegal outflow of wild flora and to build a national development industry around cultivated medicinal plants using the instruments of law, techno-science, and research. These competin…
Urban Hunters
Building Merit
This article describes the development of themoral economy of meritamong the fishermen and rural poor of Dalai Village, Magtaalsoum, Mongolia. In 1971, the historian E. P. Thompson used the term 'moral economy' to describe a popular consensus on what was considered right and wrong in economic behavior, arguing that its provocation motivated the eighteenth-century English poor to engage in crowd-based political action. In contemporary, post-social…
‘Doing It for Life’ — On the Moral Evaluation of Chinese Trade in Eastern Mongolia
The study focuses on the informal resource trade between Mongolians living in the far eastern region of Mongolia on the border with China and Chinese citizens (Inner Mongolians and Han Chinese). The cross-border relations between these nations are understandably maintained because of the economic opportunities they provide to citizens on both sides of the border. The article is based on the results of fieldwork held in 2015–2017 in eastern Mongol…
The financialization of help
Considering that debt has become a pervasive feature of contemporary life in Mongolia, this article calls for a nuanced examination of the diversity of current debt relations as evinced through its multiple moral interpretations and social effects. Through case studies of moneylenders in contemporary Dornod Province, I discuss (1) how local actors perceive multiple moralities and types of debt (e.g. formal and informal/kinship); (2) how moneylend…
Erotic Capital as Societal Elevator
Inspired by Bourdieu’s forms of capital, theorists have utilized the additional category of erotic capital as a descriptor of the increasing importance of physical appearance to economic mobility. Although this phenomenon also exists in Mongolia, the pursuit of corporeal attractiveness only depicts one prevalent erotic field highly conceptually intertwined with values of market and modernity. Additionally, the prevalence of this belief in the ema…
The financialization of help
Considering that debt has become a pervasive feature of contemporary life in Mongolia, this article calls for a nuanced examination of the diversity of current debt relations as evinced through its multiple moral interpretations and social effects. Through case studies of moneylenders in contemporary Dornod Province, I discuss (1) how local actors perceive multiple moralities and types of debt (e.g. formal and informal/kinship); (2) how moneylend…
Erotic Capital as Societal Elevator
Inspired by Bourdieu’s forms of capital, theorists have utilized the additional category of erotic capital as a descriptor of the increasing importance of physical appearance to economic mobility. Although this phenomenon also exists in Mongolia, the pursuit of corporeal attractiveness only depicts one prevalent erotic field highly conceptually intertwined with values of market and modernity. Additionally, the prevalence of this belief in the ema…
Building Merit
This article describes the development of themoral economy of meritamong the fishermen and rural poor of Dalai Village, Magtaalsoum, Mongolia. In 1971, the historian E. P. Thompson used the term 'moral economy' to describe a popular consensus on what was considered right and wrong in economic behavior, arguing that its provocation motivated the eighteenth-century English poor to engage in crowd-based political action. In contemporary, post-social…
Erotic Capital as Societal Elevator
Inspired by Bourdieu’s forms of capital, theorists have utilized the additional category of erotic capital as a descriptor of the increasing importance of physical appearance to economic mobility. Although this phenomenon also exists in Mongolia, the pursuit of corporeal attractiveness only depicts one prevalent erotic field highly conceptually intertwined with values of market and modernity. Additionally, the prevalence of this belief in the ema…
The financialization of help
Considering that debt has become a pervasive feature of contemporary life in Mongolia, this article calls for a nuanced examination of the diversity of current debt relations as evinced through its multiple moral interpretations and social effects. Through case studies of moneylenders in contemporary Dornod Province, I discuss (1) how local actors perceive multiple moralities and types of debt (e.g. formal and informal/kinship); (2) how moneylend…
‘Doing It for Life’ — On the Moral Evaluation of Chinese Trade in Eastern Mongolia
The study focuses on the informal resource trade between Mongolians living in the far eastern region of Mongolia on the border with China and Chinese citizens (Inner Mongolians and Han Chinese). The cross-border relations between these nations are understandably maintained because of the economic opportunities they provide to citizens on both sides of the border. The article is based on the results of fieldwork held in 2015–2017 in eastern Mongol…
Building Merit
This article describes the development of themoral economy of meritamong the fishermen and rural poor of Dalai Village, Magtaalsoum, Mongolia. In 1971, the historian E. P. Thompson used the term 'moral economy' to describe a popular consensus on what was considered right and wrong in economic behavior, arguing that its provocation motivated the eighteenth-century English poor to engage in crowd-based political action. In contemporary, post-social…
Urban Hunters
Aspirational laws
Since Mongolia's transition from socialism in 1991, wild medicinal plants have been harvested from public lands and exported to diverse Asian medicinal markets. This article examines how the post-socialist, market-democratic state has struggled both to regulate the illegal outflow of wild flora and to build a national development industry around cultivated medicinal plants using the instruments of law, techno-science, and research. These competin…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · China (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agriculture (1 work)