Dr
Uchralt Otede
Sessional Lecturer
PhD (Social Science, Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
The Australian National University
Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
Uchralt Otede is currently working on environmental issues and herders’ self-help movement in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Most recent publication includes: ‘Environmental protest movement in Inner Mongolia’ in Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China, edited by Teressa Wright, 2019; and ‘Informal grassland protection networks in Inner Mongolia’ in The Living Politics of Self-help Movement in East Asia, edited by T. Cliff, T. Morris-suzuki and S. Wei, 2018. He joined the ARC Laureate Project of ‘Informal Life Politics in Northeast Asia (https://survivalpolitics.org/) ’ as a PhD researcher at ANU since 2015 and appointed as a research fellow at the ANU Mongolia institute in 2020.
Research Interest
- China: nation-building and ethnic, religious conflicts, environmental movement in Inner Mongolia
- Mongolia: grassroots selfhelp movements, DIY governance in rural communities
- Cross-Border People Movements: Mongol tribes and clans(China, Mongolia, Russia), academic community partership networks(Mongolia, China, Japan, and Australia).
Expertise Area(s)
Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
Studies of Asian Society
Asian History