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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... Thailand and Cambodia for 7 days): Oh I came to see Angkor, it was nothing to do with Cambodia. It was like Machu Picchu or Timbuktu, it's one of those places everyone's heard about but never been, that's the attraction. To go to Thailand ...
... Thailand to the west and northwest, by Vietnam to the east and southeast, by Lao People's Democratic Republic to the north, and by the Gulf of Thailand to the south. Largely made up of plains, the country's topography also includes low ...
... Thailand, a new government formed in Phnom Penh calling itself the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK). This experiment lasting just under four years in which it is now estimated over one and a half million people died, or one in seven ...
... Thailand in the south, and from the Mekong delta in the west to the borders of Pagan in the east. In Angkor Wat, the Angkorean period has also given us the largest religious building on the planet. Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, Khmer ...
... Thailand have provided a rudimentary understanding of the reach of Khmer influence at different times, but years of further research at numerous other temple sites across the region are still required in order to flesh out the details ...
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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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