The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Brickell, Katherine; Springer, Simon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the country, the Routledge 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317567820
• Artikelnr.: 45971355

Autorenporträt

Katherine Brickell is Reader in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and recipient of the 2014 Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial Award. For over a decade, her research has focused on gender, violence and rights in Cambodia. Simon Springer is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada and recipient of the 2015 Association of American Geographers Stanley D. Brunn Young Scholar Award. He has authored four books, including Cambodia's Neoliberal Order (Routledge, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to contemporary Cambodia Part 1: Political and economic
tensions 1. The contemporary geopolitics of Cambodia: Alignments in
regional and global contexts 2. Justice inverted: Law and human rights in
3. Justice and the past: The Khmer Rouge tribunal 4. Civil society in
Cambodia: Challenges and contestation 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 2: Rural
developments8. 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 3: Urban conflicts 15. Urban megaprojects
and city planning in Phnom Penh 16. Labor rights and 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
4: 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 works 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 5: 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