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Interactions with a Violent Past
Vatthana Pholsena
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Description for Interactions with a Violent Past
Paperback. Editor(s): Pholsena, Vatthana; Tappe, Oliver. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMC; 1FML; 1FMV; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 474.
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. Today’s 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, ... Read more
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. Today’s 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NUS Press Singapore
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971697013
SKU
V9789971697013
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About Vatthana Pholsena
Vatthana Pholsena is a Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Singapore representative for the Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC). Oliver Tappe is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.
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