Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism

Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23398500
AutoresTim Winter (0000-0001-7715-9675)
Año2007
Fecha de publicación2007-11-08
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaPost-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203946381
OpenAlexW4242278843
Open LibraryOL34578834M
ISBN9780203946381
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas82

Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’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. Angkor’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-cow’ 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. With the situation in Cambodia examined as a stark example of a phenomenon common to many countries attempting to recover after periods of war or political turmoil, Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism will be of particular interest to students and scholars working in the fields of Asian studies, tourism, heritage, development, and cultural and postcolonial studies.

Archaeology · Geography · Political science · Tourism · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Angkor (extinct city) · Cambodia · civilization · Economic development projects · Heritage tourism · Postcolonialism · Postcolonialisme · Southeast asia · Tourisme culturel