Imagining the mineral nation

Contested nation-building in Mongolia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11047480
AutoresSara L Jackson (0000-0002-1278-3693, York University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume43
Fascículo3
Páginas437-456
Data de publicação2015-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2014.969692
OpenAlexW2035038454
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas61

The development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine, located in Mongolia's South Gobi province, promises to rebuild the nation after two decades of economic and social instabilities following the 1990 revolution. While the company promotes the mine as the teleological solution to Mongolia's development, the state and public remain ambivalent, as concerns about a resource curse and Dutch Disease loom. In this paper, I argue that Oyu Tolgoi remains contested due to tensions between corporate and state actors as well as public concerns about the potential negative political, economic, and environmental effects of mining. Debates over the Oyu Tolgoi investment agreement negotiations and the immediate repercussions of the agreement signing reveal how the dual teleologies of building mineral nations crystallize in the neologism “Mine-golia.” This paper begins to fill a gap in the literature on mineral nations which privileges the role of the state, leaving how corporations engage in nation-building underexamined

Development economics · Economics · Economy · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resource curse · Sociology · State (computer science · State-building · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development