Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism: Tourism, Politics and Development at AngkorRoutledge, 8 thg 11, 2007 - 200 trang Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a decade, the site has become an intense focal point of competing agendas. Angkor’s immense historical importance, along with its global prestige, has led to an unprecedented influx of aid, with over twenty countries together donating millions of dollars for conservation and research. For the Royal Government however, Angkor has become a ‘cash-cow’ of development. Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism critically examines this situation and locates Angkor within the broader contexts of post-conflict reconstruction, nation building, and socio-economic rehabilitation. Based on two years of fieldwork, the book explores culture, development, the politics of space, and the relationship between consumption, memory and identity to reveal the aspirations and tensions, anxieties and paradoxical agendas, which form around a heritage tourism landscape in a post-conflict, postcolonial society. With the situation in Cambodia examined as a stark example of a phenomenon common to many countries attempting to recover after periods of war or political turmoil, Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism will be of particular interest to students and scholars working in the fields of Asian studies, tourism, heritage, development, and cultural and postcolonial studies. |
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... (Phnom Penh), and the Cambodia Development Resource Institute for their time and assistance. The collection of tourist interview data was only made possible by the extremely generous hospitality of Weng Aow, Geert Caboor, Craig Hodges ...
... Phnom Penh was once again liberated as Pol Pot fled westwards by helicopter. While the Khmer Rouge regrouped as a jungle guerrilla army in Thailand, a new government formed in Phnom Penh calling itself the People's Republic of Kampuchea ...
... Phnom Penh after the enforced evacuations of 1975 was largely driven by the desperate situation in the countryside, with physical and mental illnesses, black markets, smuggling and widespread poverty all remaining prevalent (Chandler ...
... growth at that time was principally fuelled by UNTAC's effects on the service and construction industries, the vast majority of which centered on Phnom Penh (Shawcross 1994, Ledgerwood 1998). Nonetheless, the prospect.
Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor Tim Winter. on Phnom Penh (Shawcross 1994, Ledgerwood 1998). Nonetheless, the prospect of macro-economic stability – something Cambodia had been denied for over two and a half decades ...
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the modern social life | |
from landscape to touristscapes 67 | |
Angkor in the frame 90 | |
Collapsing policies and ruined dreams 116 | |
Conclusion in the place of modernity appears the illusion of history | |
Notes 150 | |
Bibliography 157 | |
Index 168 | |
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