Interactions with a Violent Past Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam / edited by Vatthana Pholsena and Oliver Tappe.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

EUROSEAS Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Tappe, Oliver, editor of compliation.

Vatthana Pholsena, editor of compliation.

Conference Name:

EuroSEAS Conference (6th : 2010 : Göteborg, Sweden)

EuroSEAS Conference.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Laos.

Indochinese War, 1946-1954.

Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Cambodia.

Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Vietnam.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 300 pages) :) illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has been little research on the lasting impact of the violence of Second and Third Indochina Wars on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today's Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation camps and resettled villages, the past lingers on in the physical environment. The nine essays in this volume discuss post-conflict landscapes as contested spaces imbued with memory-work conveying differing interpretations of the recent past, expressed through material (even, monumental) objects, ritual performances, and oral narratives (or silences). While Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese landscapes are filled with tenacious traces of a violent past, creating an unsolicited and malevolent sense of place among their inhabitants, they can in turn be transformed by actions of resilient and resourceful local communities.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction the "American war," post-conflict landscapes, and violent memories / Oliver Tappe and Vatthana Pholsena

National memorial sites and personal remembrance : remembering the dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in Cambodia / Sina Emde

National lieu de memoire vs. multivocal memories : the case of Viengxay, Lao PDR / Oliver Tappe

War-martyr bia : commemoration and perdurability in rural Vietnam / Markus Schlecker

Laos : living with unexploded ordnance : past memories and present realities / Elaine Russell

War debris in postwar society : managing risk and uncertainty in the DMZ / Christina Schwenkel

A social reading of a post-conflict landscape : Route 9 in southern Laos / Vatthana Pholsena

Redefining Agent Orange, mitigating its impacts / Susan Hammond

Aesthetic forms of post-conflict memory : inspired vessels of memory in northeast Cambodia / Krisna Uk

Remembering old homelands : the Houay Ho Dam, the resettlement of the Heuny (Nya Heun), memory, and the struggle for places

Ian G. Baird

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-290) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-35596-066-6

9971-69-762-9

OCLC:

866988901