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SUMMARY:“Fraternal Relations: Idioms of Kinship and Modes of Cooperation
  in Mongolian-Soviet trans-border Resource Governance” - Dr Joseph Brist
 ley
DTSTART:20240426T130000Z
DTEND:20240426T140000Z
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CONTACT:Said Reza Huseini
DESCRIPTION:From environmental activism to international law\, ‘cooperat
 ion’ between states is widely seen as key to protecting the environment 
 from anthropogenic harm. Emphasising working together over the pursuit of 
 self-interested goals\, cooperation is imagined both as a method for manag
 ing water resources\, and a description of the collaboration involved. But
  how cooperation is actually imagined and practiced in everyday life is no
 t anthropologically well explored. This paper draws on historical and ethn
 ographic material from Mongolia to examine how practices of joint water ma
 nagement were enacted between this country and the Soviet Union. Focussing
  on ideas of ‘fraternal relations’ between these two socialist countri
 es during the second half of the twentieth century\, it examines how kin r
 elations were appropriated to frame the enaction of inter-state cooperatio
 n in environmental management. The material on which this paper is based r
 elates to the Selenge river (Mon. Selenge mörön\; Russ. reka Selenga)\, 
 a major Asian transboundary river which rises in Mongolia’s western high
 lands before crossing the Russian border and flowing into lake Baikal.
LOCATION:Keynes Lecture Theatre\, King’s College (and online) 
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