Expressions of Cambodia : the politics of tradition, identity, and change / edited by Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier and Tim Winter. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. - xvi, 226 p. : ill. ; œc 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 12 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780415385541 (hbk.)


Social change--Cambodia.


Cambodia--Politics and government--1979-
Cambodia--Civilization.
Cambodia--Social conditions.
Cambodia--Economic conditions.

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