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- Publications
- Influence
Central Asian ‘Characteristics’ on China’s New Silk Road: The Role of Landscape and the Politics of Infrastructure
- T. Sternberg, Ariell Ahearn, F. McConnell
- Economics
- 23 August 2017
China’s $1 trillion One Belt, One Road (OBOR) infrastructure project has significant landscape, socio-economic, and political implications in recipient countries. To date, investigation has focused… Expand
Contradictions in Schooling Children among Mongolian Pastoralists
- Ariell Ahearn, D. Bumochir
- Geography
- 2016
Mongolian pastoralist households with children face an annual decision at the start of the school year—how to take care of both herds and children separated by long distances and resource needs. This… Expand
Winters without women: social change, split households and gendered labour in rural Mongolia
- Ariell Ahearn
- Geography
- 4 March 2018
Abstract In this article, I use absence as a lens to explore social change and masculinity in rural Mongolia, with a focus on household splitting during winter months. Since the breakdown in… Expand
The Role of Kinship in Negotiating Territorial Rights
- Ariell Ahearn
- Geography
- 15 December 2016
This paper explores the role of kinship in herder claims for winter shelter ownership in rural Mongolia, where pastureland is currently designated as state-owned property in the national… Expand
Herders and hazards: covariate dzud risk and the cost of risk management strategies in a Mongolian subdistrict
- Ariell Ahearn
- Business
- Natural Hazards
- 1 November 2018
Studies of mobile pastoralist livelihoods have shown that a variety of socio-technical practices have been developed to achieve reliable outputs from livestock in variable arid and semi-arid… Expand
Gobi Herders’ Decision-Making and Risk Management under Changing Climate
- Tserennadmid Nadia Mijiddorj, Ariell Ahearn, C. Mishra, B. Boldgiv
- Geography
- 1 October 2019
Our research examines herder livelihoods strategies in a region of the South Gobi desert that is heavily affected by both formal and informal/illegal mining and is exposed to natural hazards such as… Expand
The New Mongolian State Herder: Examining Invocations and Improvisations of the State in Rural Mongolia
- Ariell Ahearn
- History
- 3 May 2020
This article aims to advance understandings of contemporary state-making in rural Mongolia, contingent on historical processes rather than a taken-for-granted natural category. Writing on… Expand
Banking Sector Restructuring Program in Kazakhstan – BTA Bank JSC
- A. Ansar, Ariell Ahearn
- Business
- 27 May 2015
Bank restructuring and sovereign-debt crises continue to be a heated topic of discussion. Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is, for example, openly challenging the deeply unpopular austerity… Expand
Frameworks for conflict mediation in international infrastructure development: A comparative overview and critical appraisal
- Stephen Lezak, Ariell Ahearn, F. McConnell, T. Sternberg
- Business
- 1 December 2019
Abstract While the extractive industries and related infrastructures are highlighted as key to economic development, they often come at a cost. Most projects involve a network of stakeholder parties;… Expand