Expressions of Cambodia: The Politics of Tradition, Identity and ChangeLeakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, Tim Winter Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing urban landscape and the construction of identity and nation building twenty-five years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. As such, the team of international contributors address the politics of development and conservation, tradition and modernity within the global economy, and transmigratory movements of the twenty-first century. Expressions of Cambodia presents a new dimension to the Cambodian studies by engaging the country in current debates about globalization and the commodification of culture, post-colonial politics and identity constructions. Timely and much-needed, this volume brings Cambodia back into dialogue with its neighbours, and in so doing, valuably contributes to the growing field of Southeast Asian cultural studies. |
Contents
reading Cambodian pasts presents and futures | |
Angkor and | |
TIM WINTER | |
The fascination for Angkor Wat and the ideology of | |
Cambodias dual citizenship | |
exile memory and diasporic longing | |
of gangs Angka and | |
negotiated ethnicity in | |
the state of Cambodias performing | |
The reemergence of Cambodian women writers at home | |
two modes of doing | |
Touring memories of the Khmer Rouge 181 | |
Khmer women and global factories 193 | |
Bibliography 205 | |
Other editions - View all
Expressions of Cambodia: The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier,Tim Winter No preview available - 2012 |
Expressions of Cambodia: The Politics of Tradition, Identity, and Change Leakthina Chan-Pech Ollier,Tim Winter No preview available - 2006 |