Cambodia and the politics of aesthetics / / Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim

• Autore: Lim Alvin Cheng-Hin
• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.9596
• Soggetto topico: Political culture - Cambodia; Democracy - Cambodia; Neoliberalism - Cambodia
• Soggetto geografico: Cambodia Politics and government; Cambodia Social conditions; Cambodia Economic conditions
• Classificazione: POL000000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Cambodia and the politics of aesthetics
• ISBN: 1-135-13259-3; 0-203-07758-X; 1-283-86072-4; 1-135-13260-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786447403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; ; 58