By Tim Winter
Angkor, Cambodia’s in basic terms global historical past web site, is enduring the most an important, turbulent sessions in its twelve hundred 12 months heritage. Given Cambodia’s have to restoration its shattered social and actual infrastructures after many years of violent clash, and with tourism to Angkor expanding by way of a incredible 10,000 in keeping with cent in exactly over a decade, the positioning has develop into an excessive point of interest of competing agendas. Angkor’s substantial historic value, besides its international status, has resulted in an extraordinary inflow of relief, with over twenty international locations jointly donating hundreds of thousands of bucks for conservation and study. For the Royal govt although, Angkor has turn into a ‘cash-cow’ of improvement. Post-conflict background, Postcolonial Tourism severely examines this case and locates Angkor in the broader contexts of post-conflict reconstruction, country development, and socio-economic rehabilitation. in response to years of fieldwork, the e-book explores tradition, improvement, the politics of house, and the connection among intake, reminiscence and identification to bare the aspirations and tensions, anxieties and paradoxical agendas, which shape round a historical past tourism panorama in a post-conflict, postcolonial society. With the placement in Cambodia tested as a stark instance of a phenomenon universal to many nations trying to recuperate after sessions of battle or political turmoil, Post-conflict background, Postcolonial Tourism should be of specific curiosity to scholars and students operating within the fields of Asian reviews, tourism, history, improvement, and cultural and postcolonial experiences.
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9 Consequently, their structural forms have not, as such, emerged as memorials to this devastating period in the country’s history. In fact, in the decades since the Khmer Rouge ceded power, efforts to commemorate have gravitated towards more vernacular structures and landscapes. The infamous school, turned torture centre, Tuol Sleng, in Phnom Penh, the nearby mass graves of Cheung Ek, and Pol Pot’s final place of residence in Anlong Veng, being the most high-profile examples among many (Chandler 2000, Wood 2006).
Moreover, for tour operators looking to integrate Angkor within their existing regional networks of hospitality, promoting Cambodia beyond temples remains a risky and unprofitable exercise. From a time of conflict to conflicting times 19 A crucial component in the mobilization of places as new tourist destinations is the circulation of images and knowledges. Chapter 5 explores this theme in detail, demonstrating that international tourism in Southeast Asia involves ‘the partial erosion of spatially bounded social worlds and the growing role of the imagination of place from a distance’ (Gupta and Ferguson 1997: 39).
Bevan (2006) and Layton and Thomas (2001) point out that decisions to destroy or preserve heritage may reflect a variety of discordant agendas. Citing examples from Bosnia, Kosovo, India, and Israel among others, they demonstrate that, if managed by local groups sensitively, heritage sites can advance reconciliation and reunification. Equally though, the past can be misused in the present to deny previous atrocities or inflame inter-communal tensions. Within this literature a number of studies have addressed what happens to heritage sites and material culture after times of conflict.
