Abstract
This volume represents four prominent clusters of presentations from a conference on Contemporary Mongolia - Transitions, Development, and Social Transformations that was held at the University of British Columbia in November 2008. They are unified in that they represent cutting-edge social science research on contemporary Mongolia focusing on Mongolians' interactions with the grasslands, with mineral resources and with each other. The survey of the research literature on Mongolia and in Mongolian Studies specifically was also an opportunity to note some of the trends in this field. This is also the case for much of the research being done in historical and cultural linguistics. The social capital embedded in herders' groups or 'communities' is readily transferable into the highly politicised arena of new social or resistance movements and highlights the conditions shaping and constraining the emergence of these new forms of civil society in rural, postsocialist contexts. Keywords:civil society; Contemporary Mongolia; mineral resources; Mongolian studies; social
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