LEADER 03918nam 22006372 450 001 9910345120203321 005 20151124031107.0 010 $a981-230-560-2 024 7 $a10.1355/9789812305602 035 $a(CKB)2430000000041108 035 $a(EBL)730975 035 $a(OCoLC)751689873 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000560981 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354177 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000560981 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10576384 035 $a(PQKB)10299347 035 $a(OCoLC)867794897 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23066 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC730975 035 $a(DE-B1597)492247 035 $a(OCoLC)1042023106 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789812305602 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789812305602 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000041108 100 $a20141103d2006|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPost-war Laos $eThe Politics of Culture, History and Identity /$fVatthana Pholsena$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aSingapore :$cInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015). 311 $a981-230-355-3 311 $a981-230-356-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247) and index. 327 $aPost-war Laos : an introduction -- The awakening of ethnic identity in colonial Laos? -- Cultural order and discipline : the politics of national culture -- The origins of the Lao people : in search of an autonomous history -- An "heroic village" -- Ethnic classification and mapping nationhood -- From inclusion to re-marginalization. 330 $aMore than a quarter of century after the end of the war in 1975, the Lao leadership is still in search for a compelling nationalist narration. Its politics of culture and representation appear to be caught between the rhetoric of preservation and the desire for modernity. Meanwhile, originating from the periphery where ethnic minorities had hitherto been symbolically, politically and administratively confined, the participation of some of their members in the Indochina Wars (1945-75) exposed these individuals to socialization and politicization processes. This rigorously researched and cogently argued book is a fine-grained analysis of substantial ethnographic material, showing the politics of identity, the geographies of memory and the power of narratives of some members of ethnic minority groups who fought during the Vietnam War in the Lao People's Liberation Army and/or were educated within the revolutionary administration. No study has ever been conducted on the latter's views on the national(ist) project of the late socialist era. Their own perceptions of their membership of the nation have been overlooked. Post-War Laos is a set to be a landmark study, and an original contribution which refines established theories of nationalism, such as Anderson's 'imagined community', by addressing a common weakness: namely, their tendency to deny agency to individuals, who in fact interpret their relationship to, and place within, the nation in a variety of ways that may change according to time and circumstance. 606 $aNationalism$zLaos$xHistory 606 $aEthnicity$zLaos 607 $aLaos$xPolitics and government$y1975- 607 $aLaos$xEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory. 615 0$aEthnicity 676 $a305.8959191 700 $aVatthana Pholsena$01208388 712 02$aNordic Institute of Asian Studies. 712 02$aInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies. 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345120203321 996 $aPost-war Laos$92787663 997 $aUNINA