Literacy under Authority

The Mongolian Cultural Campaigns

Bibliographic Data

ID3606113
AuthorsPhillip P Marzluf (0000-0003-0297-9403, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume76
Issue1
Pages135-157
Publication date2017-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911816001194
OpenAlexW2506747115
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited43

In the twentieth century, authoritarian states throughout Asia mobilized mass populations to adopt modern subjectivities and national identities. Literacy campaigns and the development of formal education systems were key strategies in shaping these subjectivities and identities, a social process that continues to have enormous material, affective, behavioral, and epistemological ramifications, even long after the eclipse of the authoritarian governments themselves. To contribute more to the understanding about how these massive social projects coerced and persuaded nonurban, pastoral, and semi-nomadic populations, this article explores the 1950s and 1960s Cultural Campaigns in the socialist Mongolian People's Republic (1924-90), which emphasized hygiene, health, literacy, and ideology. Oral history accounts document how the socialist Mongolian state infiltrated the private spaces of Mongolians and shaped their attitudes toward reading and writing and other desirable social goals. Additionally, these accounts suggest ways that pastoral Mongolians subtly resisted and challenged the authority of the socialist Mongolian state

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Ideology · Literacy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Soviet and Russian History

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