1st Edition
Expressions of Cambodia The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change
Introduction: The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change Tim Winter and Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier Part 1: Re-Scripting Angkor 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 Part 2: Identity and the Liminal Space 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 Part 3: Performing Tradition 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 Part 4: Engaging Modernity 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 Bibliography
Biography
Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier is a writer and lives in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Tim Winter worked on this book as part of his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, Singapore. Tim is now a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia.
'The book aims to be of interest to those working in the fields of Asian studies, tourism, diaspora, and postcolonial and cultural studies.' - Oxfam's Development Resources Review
"Ollier and Winter’s edited volume is an engaging assembly of thirteen chapters organized along four major themes that focus on some aspect of Cambodian culture." - JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz, PhD, Texas A&M University
