
Interactions with a Violent Past
Reading of Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
NUS Press
Will be published approx. on 30. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-9971-69-701-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today's Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation camps and resettled villages, the past lingers on in the physical environment. The nine essays in this volume discuss post-conflict landscapes as contested spaces imbued with memory-work conveying differing interpretations of the recent past, expressed through material (even, monumental) objects, ritual performances, and oral narratives (or silences).
While Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese landscapes are filled with tenacious traces of a violent past, creating an unsolicited and malevolent sense of place among their inhabitants, they can in turn be transformed by actions of resilient and resourceful local communities.
While Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese landscapes are filled with tenacious traces of a violent past, creating an unsolicited and malevolent sense of place among their inhabitants, they can in turn be transformed by actions of resilient and resourceful local communities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-9971-69-701-3 (9789971697013)
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Vatthana Pholsena is a Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Singapore representative for the Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC).
Oliver Tappe is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.
Oliver Tappe is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.