Abstract
Imagine the flâneuse in Ulaan Bataar, with its streets unnavigable for pedestrians, and its ever-shifting ger neighborhoods that abut onto crumbling Gulag architecture, not to mention its fierce resurrection of Genghis Khan whose portrait engraved into the overlooking hills declares the city’s imperious nomadic autonomy. This paper investigates the mobilization of the 21st-century flâneuse by the contrary material forces of nomadism and urbanism that confront and transform her as she stumbles, drifts and speeds through Mongolia's city and steppes. The focus of investigation concerns the (im)possible conjunction of nomadism and flânerie on the frontier of the urban and the edge of gender.
Recommended Citation
Chisolm, Dianne
(2009)
"The Nomadic Experiment of a Steppe Land Flâneuse,"
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
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https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol7/iss1/3
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