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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... presented by tourism. Two and a half decades of war and intense social turmoil virtually erased that familiarity. In the early 1990s the country would be starting again, and, as such, totally unprepared for the frenzy of international ...
... presented by English Heritage, which attempt to narrate a 'standard' account of history, and thus, by implication, secure ownership over the land. She states: More often than not, those involved in the conservation, preservation and ...
... presented in Chapter 3 illustrates how a desire to formalize and define resists pluralism and thus, by implication, excludes those views and parties that fall outside the dominant paradigm. Studies by Ashworth (1994), Macnaghten and ...
... presented in guidebooks and other media have played a pivotal role in defining the geographical and cultural boundaries of Cambodia's post-conflict tourism industry (Winter 2006). This book builds on these themes and expands their ...
... presented in the following chapters draws these various political and economic threads together. In a departure from state-centered approaches to unequal patterns of development authors like Sassen (2002), Urry (2000), Appadurai (1990) ...
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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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