Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia enacted a
program of organized mass violence that resulted in the deaths of
approximately one quarter of the country’s population. Over two
million people died from torture, execution, disease and famine. From
the commodification of the ‘killing fields’ of Choeung Ek to the
hundreds of unmarked mass graves scattered across the country,
violence continues to shape the Cambodian landscape. Landscape,
Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia explores the on-going
memorialization of violence. As part of a broader engagement with war,
violence and critical heritage studies, it explores how a legacy of
organized mass violence becomes part of a cultural heritage and, in
the process, how this heritage is ‘produced’. Existing literature
has addressed explicitly the impact of war and armed conflict on
cultural heritage through the destruction of heritage sites. This book
inverts this concern by exploring what happens when sites of
‘heritage violence’ are under threat. It argues that the selective
memorialization of Cambodia’s violent heritage negates the everyday
lived experiences of millions of Cambodians and diminishes the efforts
to bring about social justice and reconciliation. In doing so, it
develops a grounded conceptual understanding of post-violence in
conflict zones internationally.
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ISBN
9781783489169
Publisert
2016
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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