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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... infrastructure. In a country without lawyers or an independent judiciary abuses by the executive branch of government were widespread (Donovan 1993). Not surprisingly, systemic corruption spiraled with the swift transition to a dollar ...
... infrastructures would all ensure a number of provinces in the west and north remained inaccessible until the beginning of the twenty-first century. 'Call. this. a. holiday?';. a. rough. guide. to. Angkor. Covering an area of just over 400 ...
... infrastructure of rivers, canals and two vast reservoirs, or barays. This approach provided the foundations for a more recent study conducted by the University of Sydney, which examines whether the decision to abandon the region was ...
... infrastructure resources, airline routes, the logistics of tour itineraries and the consumption practices of both domestic and international tourists. In other words, the development of Angkor's tourism industry is approached as a ...
... infrastructure of nodes and scapes. To better understand the broad dynamics by which tourism expands its frontiers and conquers new territories Urry's distinction between scapes and flows is instructive here. Adopting the conceptual ...
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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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