Q&A: How camel herders in Inner Mongolia protect their way of life

Q&A: How camel herders in Inner Mongolia protect their way of life

China has become renowned in recent years for a model of top-down, technocentric and efficient environmental policy. On the ground, however, policy making and implementation – as well as the ideas and worldviews that shape them – are constantly being negotiated, redefined and contested. In a recent book, China’s Camel Country, anthropologist Thomas White uncovers how traditional camel pastoralism in western Inner Mongolia has transformed in the …