Change in Democratic Mongolia -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Research on Contemporary Mongolia Julian Dierkes -- PART I: SOCIAL RELATIONS -- Finding the Buddha Hidden below the Sand: Youth, Identity and Narrative in the Revival of Mongolian Buddhism -- Formal and Informal Networks in Post-socialist Mongolia: Access, Uses, and Inequalities -- Democracy and Risk: Mongolians' Perspectives -- Local Leaders between Obligation and Corruption: State Workplaces, the Discourse of 'Moral Decay', and 'Eating Money' in the Mongolian Province -- PART II: CHALLENGES TO THE MONGOLIAN HEALTH SYSTEM -- Did the Social and Economic Transition Cause a Health Crisis in Mongolia? Evidence from Age- and Sex-Specific Mortality Trends (1965-2009) -- Occupational Safety and the Health of Miners as Challenge to Policy-Making in Mongolia? -- PART III: THE STATE OF MOBILE PASTORALISM -- Changes in Pastoral Land Use and Their Effects on Rangeland Vegetation Indices -- Collaborative Pasture Management: A Solution for Grassland Degradation in Mongolia? -- The Twilight of Pastoralism? Livelihood, Mobility, Differentiation, and Environmental Engagement on the Inner Asian Steppe -- PART IV: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF MINING -- Mining, Resistance and Pastoral Livelihoods in Contemporary Mongolia -- The Cultural Logics of Illegality: Living Outside the Law in the Mongolian Gold Mines -- Mongolia's Mining Controversies and the Politics of Place -- Conclusion: Mongolia in the First Twenty Years of the 21st Century -- Bibliography -- Index.