TY - JOUR

T1 - Borderline Gardening

T2 - Sino-Mongolian Relations and the Construction of Extractive Enclaves with Horticultural Characteristics

AU - Bunkenborg, Mikkel

PY - 2021/12/9

Y1 - 2021/12/9

N2 - Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Chinese nationals working in Mongolia, this research note explores various forms of gardening that unfolded as side-projects at sites where Chinese enterprises were engaged in the extraction of oil, zinc and fluorspar. At first, the organisation and activities of these Chinese operations appeared to stem from a penchant for walled compounds and gardening. However, on closer inspection, the horticultural enclaves were not really a unilateral imposition of a culturally determined aesthetics, but rather the outcome of a negotiation, informed by prevailing ethnic stereotypes, of the proper form a Chinese presence could assume in Mongolia

AB - Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Chinese nationals working in Mongolia, this research note explores various forms of gardening that unfolded as side-projects at sites where Chinese enterprises were engaged in the extraction of oil, zinc and fluorspar. At first, the organisation and activities of these Chinese operations appeared to stem from a penchant for walled compounds and gardening. However, on closer inspection, the horticultural enclaves were not really a unilateral imposition of a culturally determined aesthetics, but rather the outcome of a negotiation, informed by prevailing ethnic stereotypes, of the proper form a Chinese presence could assume in Mongolia

U2 - 10.22439/cjas.v39i2.6387

DO - 10.22439/cjas.v39i2.6387

M3 - Journal article

VL - 39

SP - 99

EP - 112

JO - Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

JF - Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

SN - 1395-4199

IS - 2

ER -