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Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries book cover

1st Edition

Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945 Case Studies from Six Countries

Edited By Eve Monique Zucker, Ben Kiernan Copyright 2021
328 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries – Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam – from the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century to the recent Rohingya genocide. Featuring cases not previously explored, and offering fresh insights into more familiar cases, the chapters cover a range of... Read more

Introduction

Ben Kiernan and Eve M. Zucker

Part 1: Dimensions of Mass Violence

1. A Time to Kill: The Anti-Communist Violence in Indonesia, 1965-66  

Geoffrey Robinson

2. Expulsion or Incorporation: Valences of Mass Violence in Myanmar

Elliott Prasse-Freeman and Andrew Ong

Part 2: The Politics of Fear

3. Performative Violence and Philippine Populism

Alfred W. McCoy

4. The Political Organization of Genocide: Central Orders and Regional Implementation under the Khmer Rouge

William Kwok

5. Violence against the Rohingya: Strategic and Ideological Drivers of Ethnic Cleansing

Mayesha Alam

Part 3: Minorities and the State

6. The Crucible of Điện Biên Phủ: Making Vietnam in the First Indochina War

Christian C. Lentz

7. The Khmer Republic’s Mass Persecution of the Vietnamese Minority in Cambodia, 1970-75

Kosal Path

8. The Genocide of Rohingyas in Burma

Azeem Ibrahim

Part 4: Technologies, Techniques, and Ideologies

9. The Air War in Vietnam: Responses to the Machinery of Mass Violence

Sophie Quinn-Judge

10. Medical Experiments, Blood and Gall: Revolutionary Utilization of the Body in Khmer Rouge Prisons

Daniel Bultmann

Part 5: Justice, Ethics, and History

11. Assessing Genocidal Intent in the Context of Myanmar’s Rohingya

Katherine E. Munyan

12. Justice after Dictatorship in Thailand

Tyrell Haberkorn

13. Investigating Genocide: Rithy Panh’s S-21 (2004)

Phirum Laurence Gaillard

14. Vietnam, ASEAN, the Great Powers, and the Challenges of Learning from the Cambodian Genocide

Hoang Minh Vu

Part 6: The Shadow of the Past on the Present

15. The Mobilization of State-Sponsored Mass Organizations Since the 2006 Coup in Thailand

Puangthong R. Pawakapan

16. Something in the Water: Towards a Symbolic History of Otherness in Chrouy Changvar, Cambodia

Ngoc Tram Luong

17. Mass Violence and Mob Violence in Cambodia: Responses and Social Repair – Hope for the Future?

Laura McGrew

Biography

Eve Monique Zucker is a lecturer in anthropology at Yale University, US. Her research focuses on the social, moral, and digital dimensions of remembrance and recovery after mass atrocities in Southeast Asia and beyond. Her books include Forest of Struggle: Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia; Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age; and Coexistence in the Aftermath of Mass Violence.

Ben Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and founding Director (1994–2015) of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, US. His books include How Pol Pot Came to Power; The Pol Pot Regime; Blood and Soil; Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia; and Việt Nam.

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