| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 12 |
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Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 12.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the politics of tradition, identity, and change / Tim Winter and Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier -- Subscripts : reading Cambodian pasts, presents, and futures through graffiti / Penny Edwards -- When ancient glory meets modern tragedy : Angkor and the Khmer Rouge in contemporary tourism / Tim Winter -- The fascination for Angkor Wat and the ideology of the visible / Panivong Norindr -- Sitting between two chairs : Cambodia's dual citizenship debate / Kathryn Poethig -- Refractions of home : exile, memory, and diasporic longing / Khatharya Um -- Rapping (in) the homeland : of gangs, angka, and the Cambodian diasporic identity / Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier -- Weaving into Cambodia : negotiated ethnicity in the (post) colonial silk industry / Heidi Dahles and John ter Horst -- A burned-out theatre : the state of Cambodia's performing arts / Robert Turnbull -- The (re- )emergence of Cambodian women writers at home and abroad / Klairung Amratisha -- Entrepreneurialism and charisma : two modes of doing business in post-Pol Pot Cambodian Buddhism / Ian Harris -- Touring memories of the Khmer Rouge (Anlong Veng) / Timothy Dylan Wood -- Khmer women and global factories / Annuska Derks |
| Summary |
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 transmigrator |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Social change -- Cambodia
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Civilization
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Social change
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1979-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98001699
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Cambodia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87004768
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Cambodia -- Social conditions
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Cambodia -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Cambodia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ollier, Leakthina Chan-Pech, 1965-
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Winter, Tim, 1971-
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| ISBN |
0203966899 |
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9780203966891 |
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0203966899 |
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9786610648399 |
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6610648395 |
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