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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... visitors to monastery in Bakong Complex 4.1 Advertisement for Thai Air 5.1 Advertisement for Mekong World Heritage Tour 5.2 Afternoon picnicking at Angkor Wat 6.1 Doorway of Ta Prohm 6.2 Tree roots at Ta Prohm 6.3 Open-top driving ...
... visitor): I am very happy to see these temples restored. It keeps it for our next generation, it will help stop them ... visiting Southeast Asia for 1 month): We.
... visiting Southeast Asia for 1 month): We knew it was mystical, that it was hard to get to. I had the idea that all of Cambodia was dense jungle, and that would be from American war movies. Tasos (28, Greek, living in Singapore, in ...
... visitor to Cambodia might find. These few lines also reveal why the publisher of what has become the bible of ... visitors – which would arrive over the coming years. Despite having so much of its physical infrastructure destroyed ...
... visiting the site has risen by a staggering 10,000 percent in just over a decade. Not surprisingly, the Royal Government has paid far greater attention to this growth in tourism, with Angkor now regarded as a 'cash cow' of much needed ...
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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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