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Using the Case of Resource Extraction in Mongolia to Interpret the Bakken
Formation of North America
Erdenet Copper Mine, Mongolia Oil Wells in North Dakota
What are your images of East Asia?
Historical?
Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea
Urban, High-Tech and Crowded?
Busan, South Korea
Tokyo, Japan
Politically Charged?
The DMZ from the South Korean Side
Pop Culture?
Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese manga goods
China
Beijing Olympics
Shanghai, China
Mongolia!…Mongolia?
Outline
• Background to Mongolia• The physical environment• Brief overview of the history and culture:
A sense of place• The case of mining • Group exercises Being resource rich: A blessing or curse?• Oil in North America
Mongolia• 2.8 million people • 1/3 live in Ulaanbaatar • 95% Mongol (Kazakh and Tuvan minorities)• Language is Mongolian• Buddhist 45%, non-religious 45%• 45% in herding, 35 million livestock
Basketball in UB
Cashmere goats and factory near Ulaanbaatar
The Physical Environment
The Steppes
Milking a horse
A diet high in meat, even in the cities
Traditional dairy products
Modern ger
Wrestling
Solar panel
Nomadic Life on the Steppes
• Could you hack it? Why? Why not?
• Possible positives and negatives?
A Quick Cultural History of Mongolia
• Chinggis (Genghis) Khan≈12th Century
The Great Wall of ChinaC. Khan memorial near UB
Mongolia in the Cold War
• 1924-1992: Mongolian People’s Republic
• Soviet influence more than Chinese on economics, education and infrastructure
• Cyrillic
• Vodka very popular
Chinggis Khan brand vodka
Post-Cold War• 1990-2000 Soviet support ends• Severe economic hardship• Plus many droughts and hard freezes in
the 2000s• Whole herds starve, livelihoods gone• Rapid urban migration• January (3˚F max to -17˚ min)• Strain on air quality
Strain on municipal services Ger among apartments
Ger camps on the edge of Ulaanbaatar
Problems, problems...But!
“Mine-golia” The Great Hope?
• Estimated $1.3 trillion in untapped mineral assets!
• Copper, coal, gold, tungsten• Mining exports: $1.3 billion (2007) to 2.3 billion (2010)• Minerals now over 80% of all exports • This is predicted to rise to near 100%!• Many of these resources destined for China• A blessing, right?
Resource Curse?
• What is it?
Positives and Negatives for Mongolia
• Group work
Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia
Thinking about North America
• The Bakken formation• Where is it? What is happening there?• Find and read at least 3 newspaper articles
on positive and/or negative changes to the people and places of the Bakken
• Relate those changes to/challenge the ideas presented in readings on the resource curse
Continued on next slide
Thinking about North America• A blessing, a curse, or both?• 1-2 page reflective journal entry
Oil wells in North Dakota at the heart of the Bakken formation
Thanks
Cultural Diffusion: Kimchi
• Korean national dish
Kimchi in an Ulaanbaatar supermarket