| Title | Between Khot (City) and Khuduu (Countryside) |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Negotiating Rural and Urban Identities in Post-Covid Mongolia |
| Contributor | Daniel J. Murphy(author) |
| Munkhochir Surenjav(author) | |
| Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo(author) | |
| Bayartogtokh Tserennadmid (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.63308/63899870973021.ch11 |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/product/rural-transitions-in-mongolia-and-central-asia/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Copyright | Daniel J. Murphy, Munkhochir Surenjav, Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo, and Bayartogtokh Tserennadmid |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2026-02-15 |
| Page range | pp. 200–219 |
| Print length | 20 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Daniel J. Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Cincinnati in the USA. He has published ethnographic research on Mongolian pastoralism and applied research on climate change planning in the rural American west. He is currently collaborating on a global comparative project exploring the role of social networks in generating wealth inequality in rural communities.
Munkhochir Surenjav is a graduate student in cultural anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, studying how social media shapes the perceptions of herders, pastoralism, and rural–urban relationships in Mongolia. He graduated from the National University of Mongolia (2022) and worked at IISNC under the auspices of UNESCO (2022–2024). Munkhochir actively engaged in the institute’s policy studies on the historical and cultural heritage of nomads in nation-building strategies in Mongolia and Kazakhstan, publishing two articles and one book chapter in Mongolian based on the fieldwork conducted in Ulaanbaatar, Astana and Almaty. His current project is supported by the Graduate Enrichment Award from the Taft Research Centre.
Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology and a director of the Centre for Development Studies, National University of Mongolia. He was the director of UNESCO-affiliated IISNC in 2021–2023 and an anthropology lecturer at the University of Zurich in 2019–2021. Apart from his academic works, he has worked as a research consultant for multilateral development agencies. He has studied how people make a living in Mongolia since the 1990s. He has published a book, In Search of Development, and articles focusing on pastoralism, political ecology, mining and moral and diverse economies.
Bayartogtokh Tserennadmid is a doctoral student in anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the National University of Mongolia. From 2010 to 2020, she taught Mongolian History and Ethnology at the Film Arts College and the Khuree Institute of Information Technology. From 2022, she has worked as a part-time researcher at the International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilisations. Since 2023, together with Daniel Murphy (University of Cincinnati, USA) and Ichinkhorloo Byambabaatar (National University of Mongolia), she has been studying changes in herders’ livelihoods.