Expressions of Cambodia

Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier is a writer and lives in Siem Reap, CambodiaTim Winter worked on this book as part of his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, Singapore. Tim is now a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia.

• Introduction: The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change Part 1: Re-Scripting Angkor Subscripts: Reading Cambodian Pasts, Presents and Futures through Graffiti. When Ancient "Glory" Meets Modern "Tragedy": Angkor and the Khmer Rouge in Contemporary Tourism. The Fascination for Angkor Wat and the Ideology of the Visible Part 2: Identity and the Liminal Space Sitting between Two Chairs: Cambodia’s Dual Citizenship Debate. Refractions of Home: Exile, Memory and Diasporic Longing. Rapping (in) the Homeland: Of Gangs, Angka, and the Cambodian Diasporic Identity Part 3: Performing Tradition Weaving into Cambodia: Negotiated Ethnicity in the (Post)Colonial Silk Industry. A Burned-Out Theatre: The State of Cambodia's Performing Arts. The (Re)emergence of Cambodian Women Writers at Home and Abroad Part 4: Engaging Modernity Entrepreneurialism and Charisma: Two Modes of Doing Business in Post-Pol Pot Cambodian Buddhism. Touring Memories of the Khmer Rouge (Anlong Veng). Khmer Women and Global Factories

'The book aims to be of interest to those working in the fields of Asian studies, tourism, diaspora, and postcolonial and cultural studies.' -Oxfam's Development Resources Review