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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... ideas and arguments. Not being a historian I appreciate greatly the time spent by Penny Edwards, David Chandler, and Mark Selden reading various chapters from the final draft. I also wish to thank Stephanie Rogers, Hayley Norton, and ...
... idea' stage. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the love and support of those closest to me during the past nine years. They know, only too well, that Angkor has been a struggle. Abbreviations ACO Angkor Conservation Office ADB Asian ...
... idea that it was not 'touristy' at all. You arrive at this temple, you're Indiana Jones exploring this place. Chum (40s, Cambodian, Samroun district, day visitor): I am very happy to see these temples restored. It keeps it for our next ...
... idea that all of Cambodia was dense jungle, and that would be from American war movies. Tasos (28, Greek, living in Singapore, in Cambodia for 3 days): Angkor is a place that is a very, very vivid remnant of the past. It puts you in ...
... nationalistic agendas and the sub-national interests of minority groups. Observers of this ever-expanding industry have therefore questioned the feasibility of bridging these gaps and using heritage as a way of promoting ideas of a.
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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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