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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... emerged due to the lure of the tourist dollar and the need to prevent the rampant destruction that the dollar and its bearers might bring. The situation in Cambodia today is a stark example of a phenomenon common to many countries ...
... emergence onto the international stage after nearly two decades of isolation would be driven by market liberalization and its geo-political realignment towards a western international donor audience (Hughes 2003). Indeed, the ...
... (ICC). The return of peace meant the site emerged as one of the most important assets for a government desperately needing to undertake a nationwide, sustained program of socio-economic development. Typically described.
... emerged from research into this question is the extent to which Angkor extended as a lowdensity, residential landscape. Through the use of NASA satellite imagery it is now understood that the greater Angkor region potentially stretched ...
... emerge and thrive. Indeed, to mobilize the flow of 'people, capital, images and culture', which Meethan (2001:4) argues defines today's global tourism industry, an international network of corporations, legislation and trustworthy ...
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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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