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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... understanding of Cambodia was greatly enhanced by many enlightening conversations with members of the research community there. Among those I would like to acknowledge Penny Edwards, Roland Fletcher, Fabienne Luco, Tara Mar, John Miksic ...
... understanding of Southeast Asian history and provided a rich tapestry of knowledge concerning the Angkorean period and the centuries either side. Decades of laborious and rigorous scholarship in the fields of epigraphy, archaeology and ...
... understanding of the scale of the settlement might also help fill the fundamental knowledge gaps which still remain concerning Angkor's economy, social structures, and vernacular history (Acker 1998). Similarly, little is known about ...
... to gain any traction in countries like Cambodia, where a language of heritage continues to reflect and reinforce Eurocentric understandings of culture and landscape. For Smith (2004) these issues are best addressed at the.
... understanding the interaction between heritage landscapes and their residential communities. In the case of Angkor, a growth in tourism has generated a sharp growth in the number of people living within the park's perimeters. According ...
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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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