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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... 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 another place, another time. Meng (30s, Cambodian Resident of Siem Reap): Angkor Wat is a symbol and creation ...
... living in rural communities, agriculture accounted for more than 50 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) (Quintyn & Zamaróczy 1998). Export manufacturing industries were virtually nonexistent and the limited economic ...
... living nearby. The degree to which Angkor was 'abandoned' in the midfifteenth century, as is commonly asserted, remains an area of intense scholarly debate. Over recent decades a number of researchers have focused on religious shifts or ...
... living inside the Angkor park about the strict regulations on the construction of residential houses, restaurants and other buildings (Figure 1.1). If planning permission has not been obtained from the local Authority for the Protection ...
... living within the park's perimeters. According to World Bank estimates, this population exceeded 150,000 in 2003, up from 50,000 a decade earlier. 6 Detailed anthropological accounts of the values these residents ascribe to Angkor as 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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