The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia

Katherine Brickell, Simon Springer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-83118-6 (ISBN)

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Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the country, The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia provides a broad coverage of social, cultural, political and economic development within both rural and urban contexts during the last decade. A detailed introduction places Cambodia within its global and regional frame, and the handbook is then divided into five thematic sections:

Political and Economic Tensions

Rural Developments

Urban Conflicts

Social Processes

Cultural Currents

The first section looks at the major political implications and tensions that have occurred in Cambodia, as well as the changing parameters of its economic profile. The handbook then highlights the major developments that are unfolding within the rural sphere, before moving on to consider how cities in Cambodia, and particularly Phnom Penh, have become primary sites of change. The fourth section covers the major processes that have shaped social understandings of the country, and how Cambodians have come to understand themselves in relation to each other and the outside world. Section five analyses the cultural dimensions of Cambodia’s current experience, and how identity comes into contact with and responds to other cultural themes.

Bringing together a team of leading scholars on Cambodia, the handbook presents an understanding of how sociocultural and political economic processes in the country have evolved. It is a cutting edge and interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as policymakers, sociologists and political scientists with an interest in contemporary Cambodia.

Katherine Brickell is Reader in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and recipient of the 2014 Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial Award. For over a decade, her research has focused on gender, violence and rights in Cambodia. Simon Springer is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada and recipient of the 2015 Association of American Geographers Stanley D. Brunn Young Scholar Award. He has authored four books, including Cambodia’s Neoliberal Order (Routledge, 2012).

Introduction to contemporary Cambodia

Part 1: Political and economic tensions

1. The contemporary geopolitics of Cambodia: Alignments in regional and global contexts

2. Justice inverted: Law and human rights in

3. Justice and the past: The Khmer Rouge tribunal

4. Civil society in Cambodia: Challenges and contestation

5. Micro-saturated: The promises and pitfalls of microcredit as a development solution

6. The media in Cambodia

7. Tourism in Cambodia: Opportunities and challenges

Part 2: Rural developments

8. Exploring rural livelihoods through the lens of coastal fishers

9. Practices and challenges towards sustainability

10. The imperative of good water governance in Cambodia

11. Cambodia’s highlanders: Land, livelihoods and the politics of indigeneity

12. Under pressure: Environmental risk and contemporary resilience strategies in rural Cambodia

13. Concessions in Cambodia: Governing profits, extending state power and enclosing resources from the colonial era to the present

14. From chicken wing receipts to students in military uniforms: Land titling and property in post-conflict Cambodia

Part 3: Urban conflicts

15. Urban megaprojects and city planning in Phnom Penh

16. Labor rights and unions in Cambodia

17. The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system

18. Real estate productions, practices, and strategies in contemporary Phnom Penh: An overview of social, economic, and political issues

19. Forced relocation in Cambodia

20. Homelessness in Cambodia: The terror of gentrification

21. Phnom Penh’s relocation sites and the obliteration of politics

22. Street vending in Phnom Penh: Flourishing but invisible

Part 4: Social processes

23. The contemporary landscape of education in Cambodia: Hybrid spaces of the "public" and "private"

24. Health: medical cosmologies and medical inequities

25. Violence against women and girls in Cambodia

26. Gendered politics of power in contemporary Cambodia

27. Sex politics and moral panics: LGBT communities, sex/entertainment works and sexually- active youth in Cambodia

28. Children, childhood and youth in contemporary Cambodia

29. Households and family processes

30. Digital technologies in contemporary Cambodia

Part 5: Cultural currents

31. Ethnic identities in Cambodia

32. Violence and memorialization in Cambodia

33. A shifting universe – religion and moral order in Cambodia

34. The persistent presence of Cambodian spirits: Contemporary knowledge production in Cambodia

35. Natural and cultural heritage in Cambodia

36. Destination Cambodia: A volunteer tourism boom

37. Addressing the contemporary: Recent trends and debates in Cambodian visual art

38. Finding new ground: Maintaining and transforming traditional music

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	12 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	975 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-83118-2 / 1138831182
ISBN-13	978-1-138-83118-6 / 9781138831186
Zustand	Neuware