Description: Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
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Moved emotionally and intellectually by thousands of unmarked mass graves from the Cambodian genocide, James Tyner brilliantly exposes the silences in how and where the Khmer Rouge is remembered officially while arguing that this violent past holds an unreconciled place within the lives and landscapes of the present. His theorization of “post-violence” will inform and inspire human rights scholarship and activism well beyond Southeast Asia.
James A. Tyner
Rowman & Littlefield International
Nov, 2016
9781783489169
76,911
History--Asia / Southeast AsiaSocial Science--Violence in Society
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Acknowledgments
Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia has been a book many years in the making. I first traveled to Cambodia in 2001; since that time I have made repeated trips. Many of these travels have been focused on particular research questions, in particular, an attempt to understand the day-to-day political economy of Cambodia as it existed under the Khmer Rouge regime. This work has...
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Chapter 1 - ‘Dig a Hole and Bury the Past’
Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
Some 60 km south of Phnom Penh, nestled among the gently rolling hills of Kampot Province, sits an altogether unremarkable earthen structure. Spanning nearly 12 km in length, 15 m in height, and 20 m in width, what remains of the Koh Sla dam seems at peace among the short grass and scrub, its flanks crisscrossed by narrow dirt footpaths connecting the stilt houses that dot the scene. The...
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  • Figure 1.1 Landscape around Koh Sla Dam, Kampot Province, Cambodia. Source
    Figure 1.1 Landscape around Koh Sla Dam, Kampot Province, Cambodia. Source
  • Figure 1.2 Boeung Trabek High School, a former Khmer Rouge reeducation center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Source
    Figure 1.2 Boeung Trabek High School, a former Khmer Rouge reeducation center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Source
  • Figure 1.3 Wat Baray Choan Dek, a former Khmer Rouge security center, Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia. Source
    Figure 1.3 Wat Baray Choan Dek, a former Khmer Rouge security center, Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia. Source
  • Figure 1.4 O-Cham Na Lou Reservoir, Kampong Som Province, Cambodia. Source
    Figure 1.4 O-Cham Na Lou Reservoir, Kampong Som Province, Cambodia. Source
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    Chapter 4 - ‘Only If Pregnant Women Were Killed’
    Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
    Over four million international tourists visit Cambodia each year. Among the sites visited, the three most popular destinations are the World Heritage sites of Angkor, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, and the attendant ‘killing fields’ of Choeung Ek. Together, these sites present a powerful historical and cultural narrative in which a glorious past—signified by the...
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  • Figure 4.1 Floodgate at 1st January Dam, built during the Khmer Rouge period, Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia. Source
    Figure 4.1 Floodgate at 1st January Dam, built during the Khmer Rouge period, Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia. Source
  • Figure 4.2 Floodgate at Trapeang Thma Dam, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia. Source
    Figure 4.2 Floodgate at Trapeang Thma Dam, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia. Source
  • Figure 4.3 Irrigated fields surrounding Trapeang Thma Dam, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia. Source
    Figure 4.3 Irrigated fields surrounding Trapeang Thma Dam, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia. Source
  • Figure 4.4 Sign indicating the Ang Trapeang Thma conservation area, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia. Source
    Figure 4.4 Sign indicating the Ang Trapeang Thma conservation area, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia. Source
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    Chapter 6 - ‘They Are Murderous Thugs’
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    Steve Watson and Emma Waterton call attention to the “obsessive materiality of...
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    About the Author
    Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
    James A. Tyner is Professor of Geography at Kent State University, Ohio. His research operates at the intersection of political and population geography with a focus on war, violence and genocide. He is the author of 14 books, including War, Violence, and Population (2009) which received the AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Geography and Iraq,...
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