Table des matières
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 Cambodia- From Democratic Kampuchea to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
- Individual and Collective Memory, State Historiography and the ECCC
- Individual and Collective Memory in Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek
- The Search for the Dead at the Tribunal
- Ritual Commemoration for the Dead
- Conclusion
Oliver 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 Realities- The Long Shadow of War
- A Brief History
- External Intervention and Civil War in Laos
- The US “Secret War” in Laos
- The Scale of the Bombings
- The Secret War Revealed
- The End of War
- Legacies of War — Almost 40 Years Later
- The Human Toll
- Economic Impacts
- Agriculture
- Poverty
- Healthcare
- Infrastructure
- Coping with a Violent Landscape
- Scars on the Landscape
- Tourism with a Warning
- The Constant Threat
- Income from the UXO Sector
- Lives Changed Forever
- Lae — Keeper of Tham Piu Cave
- Manophet — Building a Future for the Young
- Thoummy and Bounmy — Cluster Bomb Ban Advocates
- Moving Forward and Finding Hope
- Progress in the UXO Sector
- UXO Clearance
- Funding the UXO Sector
- Victim Assistance
- Focusing Attention on the Problem
- The Safe Path Forward 2003-2013 and The Safe Path Forward II
- The Convention on Cluster Munitions
- Conclusion
Christina Schwenkel
Chapter 5
War Debris in Postwar Society: Managing Risk and Uncertainty in the DMZSusan Hammond
Chapter 7
Redefining Agent Orange, Mitigating Its Impacts- Misinterpreting Agent Orange or Denial?
- Why Agent Orange?
- “Agent Orange” Defined
- Agent Orange’s Impacts Then and Now
- A Lưới Valley: A Living Museum of Agent Orange
- Hotspot Theory
- Who is an “Agent Orange Victim”?
- Why Now?
- A Breakthrough in the Stalemate
- Putting the “One Significant Ghost” to Rest
- Conclusion
Krisna Uk
Chapter 8
Aesthetic Forms of Post-Conflict Memory: Inspired Vessels of Memory in Northeast Cambodia- Introduction
- Leu Village: Sculpting and Carving Funeral Effigies
- The Mnemonic Functions of Sculpting
- Carving a Better Plane
- Peuho Village: Painting Individual and Collective Memories
- The Funerary Monument: A Distinctive “Lieu de Mémoire”
- The Collective Functions of the Posât Atâo
- Laom Village: Weaving and Manufacturing Memories
- Integrating New Weaving Patterns
- Memory-Makers and Memory-Consumers
- Searching for Authenticity
- Conclusion
