Cambodia's Second Kingdom : Nation, Imagination, and Democracy / Astrid Noren-Nilsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noren-Nilsson, Astrid, author.

Series:

Studies on Southeast Asia ; Number 68.

Studies on Southeast Asia ; Number 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elections--Cambodia.

Elections.

Cambodia--Politics and government--1993-.

Cambodia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 154 pages :) illustrations, maps ;

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system. Competing nationalistic imaginings are shown to be a more prominent part of party political contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia than typically believed. For political parties, nationalistic imaginings became the basis for strategies to attract popular support, electoral victories, and moral legitimacy. Astrid Norén-Nilsson uses uncommon sources, such as interviews with key contemporary political actors, to analyze Cambodia's postconflict reconstruction politics. This book exposes how nationalist imaginings, typically understood to be associated with political opposition, have been central to the reworking of political identities and legitimacy bids across the political spectrum. Norén-Nilsson examines the entanglement of notions of democracy and national identity and traces out a tension between domestic elite imaginings and the liberal democratic framework in which they operate

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword / Chandler, David

Preface

Biographical Notes / Sen, Hun / Ranariddh, Norodom / Rainsy, Sam / Sokha, Kem

Chapter One. Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Starting Points

Chapter Two. Of Hun Sen: The Sdech Kân Narrative

Chapter Three. Royalists: Between Embodiment and Doctrine

Chapter Four. Democrats: Democracy and the Post-PPA Nation

Chapter Five. Reassessing Political Contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-219) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

087727228X

9780877272281

1501725947

9781501725944

0877277680

9780877277682

OCLC:

954679012