bokomslag Interactions with a Violent Past
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Interactions with a Violent Past

Vatthana Pholsena Oliver Tappe

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  • 312 sidor
  • 2013
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Todays Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation camps and resettled villages, the past lingers on in the physical environment. The nine essays in this volume discuss post-conflict landscapes as contested spaces imbued with memory-work conveying differing interpretations of the recent past, expressed through material (even, monumental) objects, ritual performances, and oral narratives (or silences). While Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese landscapes are filled with tenacious traces of a violent past, creating an unsolicited and malevolent sense of place among their inhabitants, they can in turn be transformed by actions of resilient and resourceful local communities.
  • Författare: Vatthana Pholsena, Oliver Tappe
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9789971697013
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-07-30
  • Förlag: NUS Press