ABSTRACT

This paper is concerned with the intertwinement of the timescapes of roads and rural life within the context of infrastructural development in northern Mongolia’s Khövsgöl region. With reference to ethnographic fieldwork, it explores how visions of incorporating roads into state development conflict with the landscapes and temporalities these very roads cross. By looking at infrastructural promise formulated in phrases such as ‘development follows the road’, this paper investigates what happens at the end of the road that connects Khatgal, a touristic village, with the provincial centre Mörön and the capital Ulaanbaatar. In this context, anatomic analogies are questioned as a leitmotif for road construction. In concert with the notion of timescapes, anatomic analogies offer a useful tool to critically analyse the spatial and temporal entanglements of infrastructural development in Mongolia.

摘要

本文关注的是蒙古北部 Khövsgöl 地区基础设施发展背景下道路与乡村生活的时间景观的相互交织。参考民族志田野调查，它探讨了将道路纳入国家发展的愿景如何与这些道路所交叉的景观和时间相冲突。通过研究用“发展跟随道路”等短语表达的基础设施承诺，本文调查了连接旅游村 Khatgal 与省中心 Mörön 和首都乌兰巴托的道路尽头发生的情况。在这种情况下，解剖类比被质疑为道路建设的主旋律。与时间景观的概念相一致，