Dr Rebekah Plueckhahn

Dr Rebekah Plueckhahn is a McArthur Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. She has been conducting ethnographic research in Mongolia since 2009 and has researched in west Mongolia and Ulaanbaatar. She has published on topics including the anthropology of capitalism in Mongolia, urban land possession and bureaucracy, urban infrastructures, ownership, Mongolian musical sociality, causality and morality. Rebekah is currently researching temporality, infrastructural inequalities, cynicism, everyday politics, performance, and the moralities of housing debt relations. She is the author of Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar, Dynamic Ownership and Economic Flux (UCL Press 2020).