@setsen
A mongolian killjoy stranded in Paris, focused on broken worlds, running along the Seine with fibromyalgia and depersonalization-derealization. Earth science (MSc@ENS) & history of science (MA-in-making@EHESS) & all things Mongolia.
PRC: Deterritorialise the inner mongolians, erase the mother tongue of the remaining natives, then turn the territory into an industrial complex, an arsenal of some sorts.
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...In fact, they developed fairly sophisticated urban systems. They understood complex urbanism—how to organize, design, and manage cities, et cetera."
...that they only destroy them. And that reflects a broader misconception, especially in Western narratives.But when we look closely at the Golden Horde, for example, we see that this simply isn’t true. Yes, there may be destruction during periods of conquest. But beyond that, they built cities...
I am glad Marie Favereau doesn't live in UB when she conjures the following words: "Another aspect I find particularly striking—and so different from Western models—is the Mongol relationship with cities. There’s a common stereotype that nomads don’t build cities...
and Japanese lawmakers underscores international recognition of his decades-long struggle for justice." #tengri #mongolsky
Hada's "case highlights the broader pattern of repression in Southern Mongolia, where communities face forced assimilation, cultural erasure, and land expropriation as part of Beijing’s systematic targeting of non-Han populations. His recent nomination for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize by U.S. and...
#tengri #mongolsky
"They mostly just dug into the earth and left piles behind when they finished. They didn’t bother to restore the land afterwards. They took huge amounts of underground water, created dust, and caused huge damage to the pastures. It was chaos, a real mess."
Who else would have witnessed it better than a mining worker-turned-electrical engineer, who just received the Goldman Prize for conservation, turned to legal suits and activism when it was the turn of his own pastureland and home that saw what he describes as:
It is already stress-inducing to exist as a mongolian student in France, but the jaw-dropping stupidity of our mongolian so-called « puppy state » rivals that of the US in intensity, if not in scale montsame.mn/en/read/363183
the Arabic originals of Latin translations because it was only these translations that were read and interpreted by European thinkers."
"An historian concerned with the Arabo-Latin transmission of science may not, for example, be compelled to learn about al-Biruni, one of the greatest of Islamic scientists, because al-Birimi was not known to the Latin West. I have even heard some medievalists say that they need not deal with...
My goodness, I have a déjà vu : Replace “Bishkek” with “Ulaanbaatar”, and all holds true?🤦🏻♀️
An important pount:
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Why are they wrong?
But let me not forget that THE most well known anthropologist of mongolia does her work mostly as an armchair anthropologist.
What I find truly absurd is the lack of anthropologists who can speak mongolian. I mean, of course I am much nicer in person to this group in my patting on their backs, my impressions are usually that their mongolian is not commensurate with the time they took to learn it.
Thank you so much for your responses. I underestimated the educational potential of X-like social media. One of the students student was from South Korea (in France as of last spring). So, it seems understandable when it comes to medieval history.
Why ignored?
Students of mongolian studies confide in me that they are told they don’t need to learn mongolian to study mongolian history. I would love to hear more. @chakarchinggis.bsky.social @nomadism.bsky.social any insights?
Nathan Thrall at the Grand Continent of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, to speak about his recent book that won him the Pulitzer.
When one’s convictions find expression in another’s words, I realise we are t least sharing the same world.
My goodness, is this real?
...Instead, the Chinese proposal "gave us nomadic tribes who benefited from the great culture of China, who were Sinocized and came under the sway of Han culture -- and we said 'No.'"
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"A recent example: "The text that the Chinese wanted to accompany the Genghis Khan exhibition denied the Mongol emperor's record in linking East and West and preparing the ground for a Pax Mongolia in Eurasia, according to Guillet...
... yet narratively coopted. unesco-iisnc.org
Our current paradigm has been dominated and created by sedentary civilizations, and various "nomads" have been unmanageable pains in the ass. Now, those deemed "uncivilized" are speaking up against them being denied the acknowledgement that "nomadic civilizations" existed on par with the sedentary..
Find of the day. The second husband of my great-grandmother was a camel caravaner, who apparently travelled between Mongolia and Tibet.