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This talk is built upon my master’s thesis, which explores the Inner Mongolia grassland as a site through which to rethink the relationships between space, scale, and lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic approaches, my research considers how grassland is not only a physical environment, but also a social, political, and affective landscape shaped by mobility, policy, memory, and everyday practice. By tracing how local actors experience and negotiate broader forces, from ecological governance to rural transformation, I reflect on how ethnography allows us to connect intimate, ground-level realities with larger spatial and structural processes. In doing so, I hope to show how global narratives, national interventions, and local livelihoods intersect in complex and often uneven ways.
