Cambodia's Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, Band 81) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 8776943313 ISBN 13: 9788776943318

Verlag: NIAS Press, 2023

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New insights into understanding how Cambodia grapples with its traumatic historical past. 

More than four decades have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so, the country is still coming to terms with the destruction wrought by the Khmer Rouge during both the time they were in power and during the period of guerrilla resistance that lasted until 1998. The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, or the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), was established in 2006 to bring the Khmer Rouge leadership to justice. In many ways a product of the 1990s, when liberal democracy appeared to be on the rise both in Cambodia and internationally, the ECCC was imagined as a transitional justice initiative that would help ease the transition to liberal democracy. 

The ECCC has long been the focus of scholarly attention in Cambodia’s recovery, but this compelling study argues that such an approach is dated, noting that the political circumstances in which the ECCC was born have since changed profoundly, both globally and locally. Cambodia’s current situation can no longer be analyzed solely in terms of transitional justice narratives or the work of the ECCC, and other ways in which Cambodians have come to terms with their past and built new lives must be considered. By decentering the ECCC in the scholarly narrative of Cambodia’s recovery, the volume’s authors offer fascinating new insights into the Khmer Rouge period and more recent years of social, cultural, and political change in Cambodia.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robin Biddulph (Editor)
Robin Biddulph is an associate professor in human geography at the University of Gothenburg. He is mainly interested in the relationships between land tenure and social justice, which he has explored in Cambodia, Tanzania and Sweden. Earlier, he lived in Cambodia where he worked as a lecturer, conducted humanitarian mine-clearance and was a policy researcher.

Alexandra Kent (Editor)
Alexandra Kent is an associate professor in social anthropology at the University of Gothenburg. She has explored the relationship between religion, politics, gender, healing and security in India, Malaysia and Cambodia, her most recent research being on Cambodians’ understandings of justice in the aftermath of conflict.



Robin Biddulph is associate professor of human geography at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Alexandra Kent is associate professor of social anthropology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NIAS Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8776943313
• ISBN 13: 9788776943318
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Herausgeber: Biddulph Robin, Kent Alexandra
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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