Post-war Laos : The Politics of Culture, History and Identity / / Vatthana Pholsena [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Vatthana Pholsena
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.8959191
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism - Laos - History; Ethnicity - Laos
• Soggetto geografico: Laos Politics and government 1975-; Laos Ethnic relations Political aspects
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Post-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.
• Sommario/riassunto: More 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Post-war Laos
• ISBN: 981-230-560-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910345120203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II