Interactions with a Violent Past
Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
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 ...
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Éditeur : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine, National university of Singapore press
Lieu d’édition : Singapour
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 2 octobre 2024
ISBN numérique : 978-2-35596-066-6
DOI : 10.4000/12egz
Collection : NUS Press-IRASEC Studies on Southeast Asia
Année d’édition : 2013
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-9971-69-701-3
Nombre de pages : xii-300
Vatthana Pholsena et Oliver Tappe
AcknowledgementsVatthana Pholsena et Oliver Tappe
Introduction
The “American War,” Post-Conflict Landscapes, and Violent MemoriesSina Emde
Chapter 1
National Memorial Sites and Personal Remembrance: Remembering the Dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in CambodiaOliver Tappe
Chapter 2
National Lieu de Mémoire vs. Multivocal Memories: The Case of Viengxay, Lao PDRElaine Russell
Chapter 4
Laos — Living with Unexploded Ordnance: Past Memories and Present RealitiesChristina Schwenkel
Chapter 5
War Debris in Postwar Society: Managing Risk and Uncertainty in the DMZKrisna Uk
Chapter 8
Aesthetic Forms of Post-Conflict Memory: Inspired Vessels of Memory in Northeast CambodiaThe 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, 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.
Vatthana Pholsena is a Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Currently based in Singapore, she is also the 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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