A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia

A Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in...
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Author: Manduhai Buyandelger
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Language: English
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A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia by Buyandelger, Manduhai

A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia

€229,89

A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia

€229,89
Author: Manduhai Buyandelger
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over.

Mongolia has often been deemed an "island of democracy," commended for its rapid adoption of free democratic elections in the wake of totalitarian socialism. The democratizing era, however, brought alongside it a phenomenon that Manduhai Buyandelger terms "electionization"--a restructuring of elections from time-grounded events into a continuous neoliberal force that governs everyday life beyond the electoral period. In this way, electoral campaigns have come to substitute for the functions of governing, from social welfare to the private sector, requiring an accumulation of wealth and power beyond the reach of most women candidates. In A Thousand Steps to Parliament, Buyandelger shows how successful women candidates instead use strategies of self-polishing to cultivate charisma and a reputation for being oyunlag, or intellectful. This carefully crafted identity can be called the "electable self" treating their bodies and minds as pliable and renewable, women candidates draw from the same practices of neoliberalism that have unsustainably commercialized elections. By tracing the complicated, contradictory paths to representation that women in Mongolia must walk, A Thousand Steps to Parliament holds a mirror up to democracies the world over, revealing an urgent need to grapple with the encroaching effects of neoliberalism in our global political systems.

Author: Manduhai Buyandelger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/23/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780226818726

About the Author
Buyandelger, Manduhai: - Manduhai Buyandelger is professor of anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Gender, and Memory in Contemporary Mongolia, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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