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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... ideas of a global citizenship or cosmopolitanism (Turtinen 2000, Meethan 2001). In reflecting upon the concept of world heritage further, authors such as Smith (2004) and Shepherd (2006) have examined landmark international agreements ...
... idea of regional and global networks. Together they argue that as we embark upon the twenty-first century, processes of socio-spatial change are defined by the flows of people, capital, information and objects within a new social ...
... that move within and especially across national borders' (2000:36). At the core of his distinction is the greater degree of structure associated with scapes. In developing this idea further in his book Global Complexity, Urry.
Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor Tim Winter. developing this idea further in his book Global Complexity, Urry argues flows – this time discussed as 'global fluids' – 'result from people acting upon the basis of local ...
... idea of memory switches attention to the ways places and histories are actively created and recreated in multiple ... ideas of modernity and globalization. 7 In this respect, together with Edensor's (1998) account of the Taj Mahal ...
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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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