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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... creation of Khmer culture, a symbol of national culture. That is why it is important for me, and why it is important for me to come here. Barton (30s, Canadian, lives in Singapore, in Cambodia for 3 days): Cambodia is all about ...
... creation of a temporary coalition prior to forthcoming elections. To oversee this transition the United Nations implemented its largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation to date, involving around 40,000 personnel, at a.
... creating an environment of conciliation and compromise, essential for open and fair elections. UNTAC's meticulous planning ensured 95 percent of those deemed eligible to vote were registered for the 1993 elections (Brown and Timberman ...
... creation of the Supreme Council on National Culture (SCNC), and the complementary International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of Angkor (ICC). The return of peace meant the site emerged as one of the most ...
... created. Dozens of elaborately carved temples are testimony to what was historically Southeast Asia's most powerful and expansive kingdom (see Figure B) – a territory which, at its height, stretched from central Laos in the north to ...
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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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