Rebekah Plueckhahn

Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar, Dynamic Ownership and Economic Flux

Rebekah Plueckhahn

Book  |  2020

What can the generative processes of dynamic ownership reveal about how the urban is experienced, understood and made in Ulaanbaat..

Rethinking the Anticommons: Usufruct, Profit, and the Urban

Rebekah Plueckhahn

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

The lens of usufruct is a productive way through which to anthropologically examine experiences of fast rates of urban growth. Wit..

Bodies in-between: Free workers and urban possibilities

Rebekah Plueckhahn

Book Chapter  |  2018

Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism brings together the work of five anthropologists and five artists..

Capitalism in Mongolia - ideology, practice and ambiguity

Rebekah Plueckhahn, Dulam Bumochir

Journal article  |  2018  |  Central Asian Survey

Definitions of and understandings of capitalism are currently the source of much debate in Mongolia’s recent context of severe eco..

Negotiation, social indebtedness, and the making of urban economies in Ulaanbaatar

Rebekah Plueckhahn, Terbish Bayartsetseg

Journal article  |  2018  |  Central Asian Survey

This article explores the types of actions that are dramatically shaping the formation of the peri-urban economic landscape of the..

The Power of Faulty Paperwork Bureaucratic Negotiation, Land Access and Personal Innovation in Ulaanbaatar

Rebekah Plueckhahn

Journal article  |  2017  |  Inner Asia

While Mongolian citizens have a ‘right’ (erh) to receive a plot of urban land from their government, accessing and keeping land in..

Land, Building Supplies and Repair-People: Differing Visions of Urban Futures in Ulaanbaatar

Rebekah Plueckhahn

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2016

As part of our series on debt, this post discusses some emerging subjects appearing in a context where there is a severe lack of c..

Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia by Manduhai Buyandelger.

Rebekah Plueckhahn

Journal article  |  2015  |  American Anthropologist

Manduhai Buyandelger’s Tragic Spirits engages the anthropological literature ofshamanism by drawing on a series of life histories ..

Fortune, Emotion and Poetics: The Intersubjective Experience of Mongolian Musical Sociality

R Plueckhahn

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

This paper explores the spiritual esoteric imperative of social singing during the life-cycle event of an Altai Urianghai wedding...

Zastiin Nogoodoi: Tribal Zakhchin Music of Western Mongolia

R Plueckhahn

Journal article  |  2009  |  The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Zastiin Nogoodoi: Tribal Zakhchin Music of Western Mongolia is the third CD to beproduced as part of a music preservation project,..