Modern ''Nomadic' Civilisation: Construction and Politics in Mongolia

In the last 40 years, Mongolia has been forming a nation-state free from external influences and colonial policies. This paper1 aims to discuss how the discourse about nomadic cultures and civilizations has changed over time and how it impacted people and institutions in post-socialist Mongolia. Furthermore, it investigated how reflexive new concepts and public policies on nomadic civilization have formed. The paper argues that Mongolia is developing the so-called nomadic civilization to resist the cultural hegemony of foreign countries and institutions and unify its people. Moreover, this paper contributes to the academic debates about how civilizational populism is used in foreign policies and national politics. This study used discourse analysis and ethnographic observations since the 1990s.