Title: Post-conflict heritage, postcolonial tourism : culture, politics and development at Angkor /
Authors: Winter, Tim, 1971-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Heritage tourism Cambodia.; Postcolonialism Cambodia.; Angkor (Extinct city); Cambodia Civilization
Abstract: Angkor, Cambodiaa (TM)s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodiaa (TM)s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a decade, the site has become an intense focal point of competing agendas. Angkora (TM)s immense historical importance, along with its global prestige, has led to an unprecedented influx of aid, with over twenty countries together donating millions of dollars for conservation and research. For the Royal Government however, Angkor has become a cash-cowa (TM) of development. Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism critically examines this situation and locates Angkor within the broader contexts of post-conflict reconstruction, nation building, and socio-economic rehabilitation. Based on two years of fieldwork, the book explores culture, development, the politics of space, and the relationship between consumption, memory and identity to reveal the aspirations and tensions, anxieties and paradoxical agendas, which form around a heritage tourism landscape in a post-conflict, postcolonial society. -- Back cover.
Contents: From a time of conflict to conflicting times --- 'Lost civilization' to free-market commerce: the modern social life of Angkor --- World heritage Angkor --- Remapping Angkor: from landscape to touristscape(s) --- Angkor in the frame --- Collapsing policies and ruined dreams --- Conclusion -- in (the) place of modernity appears the illusion of history.