03644oam 2200709I 450 991046305100332120200520144314.00-203-07758-X1-283-86072-41-135-13260-710.4324/9780203077580 (CKB)2670000000299192(EBL)1092628(OCoLC)821894840(SSID)ssj0000784739(PQKBManifestationID)12329795(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784739(PQKBWorkID)10782639(PQKB)10401012(MiAaPQ)EBC1092628(Au-PeEL)EBL1092628(CaPaEBR)ebr10632490(CaONFJC)MIL417322(OCoLC)823730229(EXLCZ)99267000000029919220180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCambodia and the politics of aesthetics /Alvin Cheng-Hin LimMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (186 p.)Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ;58Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ;58Description based upon print version of record.1-138-94835-7 0-415-50615-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Cambodia and the Politics of Aesthetics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Third-Worlding of Cambodia; 2 Jacotot in Cambodia; 3 The gaze and the tain; 4 A Cambodian hauntology; 5 Cambodian literature as heterotopia; 6 Breakfast with the dictator; 7 Reassembling memory; 8 Precarious lives; Bibliography; Index"Illuminating developments in contemporary Cambodia with political and aesthetic theory, this book analyses the country's violent transition from socialism to capitalism through an innovative method that combines the aesthetic approach and critical theory. To understand the particularities of the country's transition and Cambodia's unfolding encounter with neoliberal capitalism, the book pursues the circuits of desire connecting the constellation of objects and relations, which is identified as Cambodia. Chapters focus on the pre-colonial empire of Angkor, the invasions of Siam and Vietnam in the nineteenth century, the devastation of the Khmer Rouge genocide and the subsequent Vietnamese occupation, and the present rapacity of Hun Sen's neoliberal government. A creative combination of auto-ethnography, critical theory, and area studies and the analysis of a historical moment, the book is of interest to academics working on comparative politics, Asian studies, holocaust studies, critical theory, and in the politics of aesthetics."Provided by publisher.Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ;58Political cultureCambodiaDemocracyCambodiaNeoliberalismCambodiaCambodiaPolitics and governmentCambodiaSocial conditionsCambodiaEconomic conditionsElectronic books.Political cultureDemocracyNeoliberalism320.9596Lim Alvin Cheng-Hin.977227MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463051003321Cambodia and the politics of aesthetics2226160UNINA