Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the country, The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia provides a broad coverage of social, cultural, political and economic development within both rural and urban contexts during the last decade. A detailed introduction places Cambodia within its global and regional frame, and the handbook is then divided into five thematic sections: Political and Economic Tensions Rural Developments Urban Conflicts Social Processes Cultural Currents The first section looks at the major political implications and tensions that have occurred in Cambodia, as well as the changing parameters of its economic profile. The handbook then highlights the major developments that are unfolding within the rural sphere, before moving on to consider how cities in Cambodia, and particularly Phnom Penh, have become primary sites of change. The fourth section covers the major processes that have shaped social understandings of the country, and how Cambodians have come to understand themselves in relation to each other and the outside world. Section five analyses the cultural dimensions of Cambodia's current experience, and how identity comes into contact with and responds to other cultural themes. Bringing together a team of leading scholars on Cambodia, the handbook presents an understanding of how sociocultural and political economic processes in the country have evolved. It is a cutting edge and interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as policymakers, sociologists and political scientists with an interest in contemporary Cambodia.
Author(s): Katherine Brickell and Simon Springer
Series: Routledge Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Contemporary Cambodia
Part I Political and economic tensions
1 The Contemporary Geopolitics of Cambodia: Alignments in Regional and Global Contexts
2 Justice Inverted: Law and Human Rights in Cambodia
3 Justice and the Past: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal
4 Civil Society in Cambodia: Challenges and Contestations
5 Micro-Saturated: The Promises and Pitfalls of Microcredit as a Development Solution
6 The Media in Cambodia
7 Tourism in Cambodia: Opportunities and Challenges
Part II Rural developments
8 Exploring Rural Livelihoods through the Lens of Coastal Fishers
9 Practices and Challenges towards Sustainability
10 The Imperative of Good Water Governance in Cambodia
11 Cambodia’s Highlanders: Land, Livelihoods, and the Politics of Indigeneity
12 Under Pressure: Environmental Risk and Contemporary Resilience Strategies in Rural Cambodia
13 Concessions in Cambodia: Governing Profits, Extending State Power and Enclosing Resources from the Colonial Era to the Present
14 From Chicken Wing Receipts to Students in Military Uniforms: Land Titling and Property in Post-Conflict Cambodia
Part III Urban conflicts
15 Urban Megaprojects and City Planning in Phnom Penh
16 Labor Rights and Trade Unions in Cambodia
17 The Ties that Bind: Rural–Urban Linkages in the Cambodian Migration System
18 Real Estate Productions, Practices, and Strategies in Contemporary Phnom Penh: An Overview of Social, Economic, and Political Issues
19 Forced Relocation in Cambodia
20 Homelessness in Cambodia: The Terror of Gentrification
21 Phnom Penh’s Relocation Sites and the Obliteration of Politics
22 Street Vending in Phnom Penh: Flourishing but Invisible
Part IV Social processes
23 The Contemporary Landscape of Education in Cambodia: Hybrid Spaces of the “Public” and “Private”
24 Health: Medical Cosmologies and Medical Inequities
25 Violence against Women and Girls in Cambodia
26 Gendered Politics of Power in Contemporary Cambodia
27 Sex Politics and Moral Panics: LGBT Communities, Sex/Entertainment Workers and Sexually Active Youth in Cambodia
28 Children, Childhood and Youth in Contemporary Cambodia
29 Households and Family Processes
30 Digital Technologies in Contemporary Cambodia
Part V Cultural currents
31 Ethnic Identities in Cambodia
32 Violence and Memorialization in Cambodia
33 A Shifting Universe – Religion and Moral Order in Cambodia
34 The Persistent Presence of Cambodian Spirits: Contemporary Knowledge Production in Cambodia
35 Natural and Cultural Heritage in Cambodia
36 Destination Cambodia: A Volunteer Tourism Boom
37 Addressing the Contemporary: Recent Trends and Debates in Cambodian Visual Art
38 Finding New Ground: Maintaining and Transforming Traditional Music
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