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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... recent decades a number of researchers have focused on religious shifts or the production of rice and associated issue of irrigation to help explain why the population migrated south in a more piecemeal manner. However, as Higham (2001 ...
... recent studies of heritage landscapes – and the heritage industry in general – have now brought 'questions of the implications of materiality, and of the mutual enmeshing of the material and social to the fore' (2006:11). By implication ...
... recently developed China Principles and Hoi An Protocols for Best Conservation Practice in Asia are two attempts to move away from the 1964 Venice Charter and deliver heritage policies more sympathetic to the cultural and historical ...
... Miura (2004) and Luco (2006). To complement the insights these recent studies offer, the discussion of Angkor as a form of 'living heritage' presented here steers in a somewhat different direction, focusing specifically on tourism.
... recent turn towards understanding touristic consumption as a process Crouch (2005) has termed 'embodied semiotics'. The late twentieth-century shift towards the subjective nature of place, as noted earlier, has informed more detailed ...
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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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