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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... 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 Cambodia for 3 ...
... Southeast Asia, a field which includes a limited number of works on Cambodia. Since the late 1970s two antithetical histories have received much attention: the ancient glories of Angkorean splendor and the horrors of the modern Khmer ...
... Southeast Asia, Cambodia covers an area of just over 180,000 square kilometers. It is bordered by Thailand to the west and northwest, by Vietnam to the east and southeast, by Lao People's Democratic Republic to the north, and by the ...
... Southeast Asia, the temples of Angkor were the principle, if not sole, attraction Cambodia could offer in a highly competitive regional tourism industry. In 1993 around 9000 international tourists visited the site. Just over a decade ...
... Southeast Asia's greatest military power, Angkor's architectural landscape steadily succumbed to the tropical climate and surrounding forest. The cumulative effect of intense heat, rain and pernicious vegetation over a number of ...
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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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