Katherine Brickell
Biographic Data
| ID | 127373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Brickell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Brickell |
| SIGNATURE | BRICKELL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0638-6106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1075 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Remittances as translocal collateral: How microfinance profitably sustains precarity in Cambodia
In this paper, we explore how commercialised microfinance institutions and banks leverage remittance-related information to assess and provide microfinance loans to households in Cambodia. We argue that (microfinance) debt regimes profitably sustain precarity in the Cambodian translocal context. Building from five studies undertaken between 2014 and 2022, we illustrate our argument through a two-pronged approach. First, we critically unpack the e…
Citational Politics in Transactions
Short Abstract From now on, authors writing in Transactions will no longer be expected to count their reference lists within the 10,000‐word limit. In this editorial, we take the opportunity to lay out the reasons behind this decision, encouraging prospective authors to critically reflect on how they cite, and highlighting the role of journals, reviewers, and editors in moving towards more inclusive citational practices
The state of/and depletion
As a feminist geographer, I have long been inspired by research and thinking in feminist political economy.I have also been one of the many readers-and indeed beneficiaries-of Shirin Rai's coauthored article on "depletion through social reproduction" (DSR) (Rai et al. 2014).In fact, it was so foundational that a large international team of geographers, anthropologists, international development scholars, nutrition economists, environmental scient…
Statement on Academic Freedom in Geography
A short statement on academic freedom in the current political climate as it relates to academic geographers, from representatives of the RGS‐IBG RHE Committee and the Editors of TIBG
Depleted by Debt: “Green” Microfinance, Over‐Indebtedness , and Social Reproduction in Climate‐Vulnerable Cambodia
The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in the context of daily, ongoing, and often slow‐onset climate disasters. Microfinance products and services are claimed to enhance coping and adaptative capacity by facilitating both risk recovery and reduction. Challenging the status quo, this paper brings together orig…
Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction
This Symposium aims to replenish geographical thinking in relation to the depletion that is entailed through social reproduction labour, and the wider, structural depletion of social reproduction that is continuing apace in capitalist times. In this introduction, we trace the existing contours of how depletion through social reproduction has come to be conceptualised. Thereafter, we focus on four areas of development that the four spatially orien…
Gendering the safety net: Social protection policy and the limits to Decent Work in Cambodia’s garment sector
Presents new evidence from a longitudinal study of female workers in Cambodia’s garment industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. • Demonstrates unanticipated consequences of uneven social protection in Cambodia that favours formal sector workers. • Illustrates that garment workers subsidise social protection for family through personal debt financing. • Evidences how resulting over-indebtedness undermines the achievement of Decent Work in the garme…
Sick of debt: How over-indebtedness is hampering health in rural Cambodia
This paper evidences how many rural poor Cambodians are sick of debt. Based on original, mixed-method data (2020-2022), exploring credit provisioning in this context, the aim of this paper is to illuminate some of the conditions leading to rural Cambodians taking on debt to bolster their health, and the effects this is having on borrowers' physical, psychological, emotional and social health. Specifically, we show how the health of our participan…
Geography and legal expertise: The transgressive nature of research at the boundary of geography and law‐making
While legal geographers have considered the geography of legal processes, there has been less attention on how geographers are contributing to the making of law. By orientating attention to the experiences and attitudes of the geographical profession, this paper examines how specific forms of knowledge become legally useful and the ensuing ethical, legal, and disciplinary implications. We are interested in the situated nature of these productions…
Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research
In this introduction to the collection of papers ‘Qualitative Longitudinal Methodologies for Crisis Times’, we argue that two main characteristics or ‘qualities’ of qualitative longitudinal methodologies (QLMs) can be identified for researching crisis. The first is that QLMs can function to repudiate crisis exceptionalism. The papers denounce the discrete and time‐limited, instead impressing the ongoingness of crisis from the past, the present, a…
Doing feminist longitudinal research across the Covid ‐19 crisis: Unheard impacts on researchers and garment workers in Cambodia
This paper is based on the ReFashion study which used mixed‐method longitudinal research to track and amplify the experiences and coping mechanisms of 200 women garment workers in Cambodia as they navigated the financial repercussions of the COVID‐19 pandemic. It develops the idea and practice of ‘feminist longitudinal research’ (FLR) through re‐centring the too often marginalised knowledges and ways of knowing of Cambodian researchers and resear…
Slow violence, over-indebtedness, and the politics of (in)visibility: Stories and creative practices in pandemic times
In this paper I share insights and thoughts on the ‘doing’ of creative practice for representing and communicating lived experiences of slow violence. Reflecting on two UKRI GCRF studies I have been part of in Cambodia, and which both harnessed creative practice in their methodologies, I focus specifically on the slow violence of over-indebtedness effecting garment workers and farmers during, but also pre-dating, the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper …
Wakeful Geographies, Wakeful Bodies: Day and Nighttime Rhythms of Indebted Life and Capitalist Enclosure in Cambodia
For a discipline so oriented around the study of wakeful geographies, the lack of direct conceptual engagement with the notion of wakefulness-a cognitive state in which the mind is conscious of, and responsive to, the external world-is all-the-more remarkable. In this article we advance geography by probing and revealing the links that exist between wakefulness and indebted life under capitalism. We show how villagers in rural Cambodia experience…
Stigma, Cladding, and Modular Housing: Resident Experiences of Dublin’s “Rapid Build” Scheme
This paper focuses on how stigma is constructed and deconstructed through linguistic and aesthetic dimensions of “Rapid Build” housing in Dublin, Ireland. Through analyses of in-depth interviews and focus groups with residents and stakeholders, we explore how the nomenclature and brick-clad modular construction of the builds influenced residents’ experiences of stigma. Emphasizing the importance of the symbolic dimensions of housing materialities…
Way‐finding agendas through Transactions
This is the first in a series of occasional editorials in which we guide our readers through groups of papers that we consider to be ‘way‐finding’ contributions to geographical debates. Our emphasis on ‘way‐finding’ and navigating through scholarly work engages a tension we identified around Transactions ' remit of publishing so‐called ‘landmark’ papers which are likely to stimulate and shape research agendas in Geography. We use this editorial a…
Worn out: Debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the Covid-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers
Drawing on 203 quantitative surveys with women workers in Cambodia and a further set of semi-structured interviews with 60 original participants, this paper is one of the very first to present empirically grounded research from garment workers on the financial challenges of navigating the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We show how in the making of clothes to be worn by Western consumers, poorly paid garment workers are reducing their eating…
Credit, land and survival work in rural Cambodia: Rethinking rural autonomy through a feminist lens
This article explores the trajectory of three rural, precarious Cambodian women as they deploy land as a means of undertaking survival work in Cambodia. Using a gendered lens vis‐à‐vis the concept of autonomy, this article rethinks distress sales of land and collateralized land for microfinance borrowing as forms of everyday autonomy. By highlighting women's central role in undertaking social reproductive labour to reproduce the rural household, …
Reduced 'fates of the body' and 'production of value for others' in the global garment industry: Thinking with Berlant on eating and hunger during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, suspended and laid off garment workers struggled on severely reduced incomes to meet the cost of food for themselves and their families. It is in this context of 'double crisis' that our commentary focuses on the diminished eating and reduced bodily fates of garment workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that thinking with Berlant encourages and supports scholars to contemplate and articulate how the 'product…
Discardscapes of fashion: Commodity biography, patch geographies, and preconsumer garment waste in Cambodia
This paper advances existing research on both the geographies of fashion and the geographies of waste, utilising their shared interests in commodity biography. Empirically, it documents the use of textile waste from export-oriented garment factories in the peri-urban areas of Phnom Penh, Cambodia as fuel for nearby brick-kilns supplying the city’s booming construction sector. Interviews and documentary photography present the forms of living, lab…
Debt, (Un)Freedom, and Development: Lessons from contemporary Asia
Practising legal geography
Legal geography is experiencing a “practice turn.” Understanding the material, spatial, and embodied characteristics of law is illuminating hitherto obscured experiences of justice, injustice, and political practice. It is contributions from scholars at the forefront of these concerns, from geography and cognate disciplines, that comprise the papers in the Practising legal geography special section. Across seven papers we are seeking to explore t…
Event(ful) spaces of organised legal encounter: Reflections from a client consultation competition on domestic violence law in Cambodia
Over the past five years, geographers’ engagement in legal observation and/or intervention has begun to gain momentum, with a particular emphasis on the courtroom. Courtrooms are positioned as epicentres of law(yering) in‐action, yet their pre‐eminence should not deflect from efforts to build a more inclusionary geography of law attendant to other, less high‐profile and official, spaces of law. In this paper, I elaborate on this argument by inter…
Everyday droning: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home
We live in an increasingly drone-saturated world. In this article, we bring drone scholarship and feminist geopolitics into dialogue to interrogate the drone-home. We re-orient military- and state-led accounts, foregrounding the growing range of non-state actors enacting and subject to the drone as it is increasingly employed in the Global North. In so doing, we develop the concept of ‘everyday droning’ as the honing and homing of military techno…
Modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change: Fisheries, field, forests and factories
In this commentary paper, the current state of research on the tightly connected and bi-directional relationships among modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change is critically assessed and reviewed. An emerging branch of research has begun to conceptualize linkages between slavery and environmental change. Responding to a gap in the extant literature, this paper synthesizes and makes sense of this emerging research base and pro…
Diffuse Drivers of Modern Slavery: From Microfinance to Unfree Labour in Cambodia
Over the past two decades, the global issue of modern slavery has become increasingly prominent within development thinking and practice. Efforts to address it largely focus on criminal prosecutions of immediate 'perpetrators', for instance those who are direct employers or middlemen. This article adds to a growing call from critical scholars to look to the structural drivers of such highly exploitative labour relations. Drawing on an unfree labo…
Mapping’ and ‘doing’ critical geographies of home
This paper reviews the diverse literatures on negative experiences of home at the domestic scale and sets out an agenda to further ‘critical geographies of home’. Tying into broader debates in critical geography on the delineations between the ‘mapping’ of exclusionary landscapes versus the ‘doing’ of something to transform them, the paper finds that the line between these two modes should not always be dichotomously drawn. Now is the time that t…
Geopolitics of Home
This paper reviews both established and emerging literatures that problematize conceptual divisions (once) held between the public arena of geopolitics on the one hand, and the so-called 'private sphere' of everyday life on the other. Tying into current concerns in critical and feminist geopolitics, I aim to understand how the home has been theorized and empirically researched as a material and ideological entity of geopolitical significance. The…
For Home Un Making
The Whole World Is Watching: Intimate Geopolitics of Forced Eviction and Women's Activism in Cambodia
Through fourteen in-depth interviews conducted in February 2013 with women from Boeung Kak Lake-a high-profile community under threat in Phnom Penh-this article argues that the occurrence of, and activism against, forced eviction is an embodiment of "intimate geopolitics." The article demonstrates the manifold relationship that forced eviction reflects and ferments between homes, bodies, the nation-state, and the geopolitical transformation of So…
Towards intimate geographies of peace? Local reconciliation of domestic violence in Cambodia
This paper addresses the dearth of writing in geography on domestic violence and its misplaced absenteeism in dialogues on geographies of war and peace. It challenges a preoccupation with (inter)‐national landscapes of war and militarism through its focus on the (im)possibilities of (liberal) peace within the home. The paper attends to the everyday politics of efforts to reduce spousal violence via local reconciliation – a customary practice of c…
Plates in a basket will rattle’: Marital dissolution and home ‘unmaking’ in contemporary Cambodia
Everyday droning: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home
We live in an increasingly drone-saturated world. In this article, we bring drone scholarship and feminist geopolitics into dialogue to interrogate the drone-home. We re-orient military- and state-led accounts, foregrounding the growing range of non-state actors enacting and subject to the drone as it is increasingly employed in the Global North. In so doing, we develop the concept of ‘everyday droning’ as the honing and homing of military techno…
Feminist geolegality
In this paper we outline the case for feminist geolegality, a project that integrates legal geography and feminist geopolitics. The approach captures the myriad ways that law intermeshes with intimate corollaries of geopolitics and geoeconomics. It includes yet surpasses scholarship on international lawfare and military conflict to examine intimate wars that law mediates in the more mundane battlefields of everyday life. The body and home act as …
Climate change adaptation and precarity across the rural-urban divide in Cambodia: Towards a 'climate precarity' approach
An emerging body of work has critiqued the concept of climate adaptation, highlighting the structural constraints impeding marginalised communities across the Global South from being able to adapt. This article builds on such work through analysis of debt-bonded brick workers in Cambodia, formerly small farmers. It argues that the detrimental impacts of climate change experienced by farmers-turned-workers across the rural - urban divide is due to…
Fire in the House’: Gendered experiences of drunkenness and violence in Siem Reap, Cambodia
We have a little bit more finesse, as a nation”: Constructing the Polish Worker in London's Building Sites
This paper examines how male Polish builders in London construct themselves relationally to English builders as they negotiate their place within the labour hierarchies of the building site and in the London labour market. This is based on semi‐structured interviews and participant photographs taken by Polish migrants arriving in the aftermath of the European Union expansion in May 2004, and now working in building sites across London. These buil…
On-edge in the impasse: Inhabiting the housing crisis as structure-of-feeling
Worn out: Debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the Covid-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers
Drawing on 203 quantitative surveys with women workers in Cambodia and a further set of semi-structured interviews with 60 original participants, this paper is one of the very first to present empirically grounded research from garment workers on the financial challenges of navigating the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We show how in the making of clothes to be worn by Western consumers, poorly paid garment workers are reducing their eating…
Compounding crises of social reproduction: Microfinance, over-indebtedness and the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit at a time when microfinance is at its historical peak, with an estimated 139 million microfinance customers globally. Cambodia's microfinance sector is one of the fastest growing, and like others in the Global South has moved from offering entrepreneurial capital to everyday liquidity, and even disaster relief. In this Viewpoint, however, we argue that the promotion of microfinance as market-based relief and recovery…
The unbearable heaviness of being’: Reflections on female altruism in Cambodia, Philippines, The Gambia and Costa Rica
Reviewing existing scholarship and drawing on our own experience of microlevel qualitative research on gender in countries in three regions of the Global South (Cambodia, the Philippines, Costa Rica and The Gambia), this article examines patterns of women’s altruistic behaviour within poor family-based households. As a quality and practice labeled as ‘feminine’, the article illuminates the motives, dimensions and dynamics that characterise this a…
Towards geographies of speech: Proverbial utterances of home in contemporary Vietnam
Whilst social life is discursively constituted, produced and reproduced through situated acts of speaking, this paper contends that geographers have failed to devote sustained attention to speech as a practice that provokes meanings in, and of, different spaces. Despite calls to human geographers 20 years ago by Yi-Fu Tuan to take speech seriously the paper demonstrates how geographers could benefit from greater engagement in practice; what dispo…
The hotelisation of the housing crisis: Experiences of family homelessness in Dublin hotels
At a time of acute housing crisis, hotels are increasingly being deployed to give temporary shelter to homeless families in wealthy cities. This paper explores the socio-political implications of the use of hotels for temporary accommodation, drawing on research conducted in Dublin. Specifically, we argue that the housing of homeless families in hotels exposes how they are made out of place in the city, even in the spaces allocated to house them.…
Modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change: Fisheries, field, forests and factories
In this commentary paper, the current state of research on the tightly connected and bi-directional relationships among modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change is critically assessed and reviewed. An emerging branch of research has begun to conceptualize linkages between slavery and environmental change. Responding to a gap in the extant literature, this paper synthesizes and makes sense of this emerging research base and pro…
Door Locks, Wall Stickers, Fireplaces: Assemblage Theory and Home (Un)Making in Lewisham’s Temporary Accommodation
This paper explores resident experiences of life in PLACE/Ladywell, a “pop‐up” social housing scheme in London providing temporary accommodation for homeless families. Specifically, we consider barriers to, and assertions of, homemaking in this temporary setting through fixtures and fittings—a door lock, wall stickers, and a fireplace. The paper utilises assemblage thinking to understand homemaking within these time‐limited and constrained circum…
Feminist legal geographies
Since the 1980s, legal geographical research as a trans-disciplinary project has drawn \nattention to the binding connections between law and space. Legal geography can be \ndefined as a stream of scholarship that makes the interconnections between law and \nspatiality, and especially their reciprocal construction into core objects of inquiry. This theme issue aims to redress the lack of attention given to feminist scholarship in the geographies …
Depleted by Debt: “Green” Microfinance, Over‐Indebtedness , and Social Reproduction in Climate‐Vulnerable Cambodia
The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in the context of daily, ongoing, and often slow‐onset climate disasters. Microfinance products and services are claimed to enhance coping and adaptative capacity by facilitating both risk recovery and reduction. Challenging the status quo, this paper brings together orig…
We don't forget the old rice pot when we get the new one: Discourses on Ideals and Practices of Women in Contemporary Cambodia
Drawing on microlevel research with men and women of differing ages living in rural and urban Siem Reap (home to the global heritage and tourist site of Angkor), this article focuses on the key discourses and practices that men and women draw on to (de)stabilize putatively traditional ideals of Cambodian womanhood and to (re)situate them in the contemporary period. Mapping the complex ways that people represent, make sense of, and respond to prer…
Debt‐Bonded Brick Kiln Workers and Their Intent to Return: Towards a Labour Geography of Smallholder Farming Persistence in Cambodia
Despite the increasing preponderance of non‐farm work in Cambodia, labour migrants across a range of working conditions remain linked to their rural homesteads through durable financial and social arrangements. This article explores this phenomenon through the case of debt‐bonded brick kiln workers in Phnom Penh, formerly smallholder farmers in villages. Drawing on the field of labour geography, the article first examines the process by which lab…
Geographical frontiers of gendered violence
This article acts as an introduction to the suite of interventions which aim to generate belated conversation across geography on gendered violences. As such, it brings together and formalizes dialogue convened at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers(IBG) (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference 2013 on the theme of ‘new geographical frontiers’. Organized by the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group as part of the ‘100…
Practising legal geography
Legal geography is experiencing a “practice turn.” Understanding the material, spatial, and embodied characteristics of law is illuminating hitherto obscured experiences of justice, injustice, and political practice. It is contributions from scholars at the forefront of these concerns, from geography and cognate disciplines, that comprise the papers in the Practising legal geography special section. Across seven papers we are seeking to explore t…
Fire in the House’: Gendered experiences of drunkenness and violence in Siem Reap, Cambodia
We have a little bit more finesse, as a nation”: Constructing the Polish Worker in London's Building Sites
This paper examines how male Polish builders in London construct themselves relationally to English builders as they negotiate their place within the labour hierarchies of the building site and in the London labour market. This is based on semi‐structured interviews and participant photographs taken by Polish migrants arriving in the aftermath of the European Union expansion in May 2004, and now working in building sites across London. These buil…
The unbearable heaviness of being’: Reflections on female altruism in Cambodia, Philippines, The Gambia and Costa Rica
Reviewing existing scholarship and drawing on our own experience of microlevel qualitative research on gender in countries in three regions of the Global South (Cambodia, the Philippines, Costa Rica and The Gambia), this article examines patterns of women’s altruistic behaviour within poor family-based households. As a quality and practice labeled as ‘feminine’, the article illuminates the motives, dimensions and dynamics that characterise this a…
Neoliberalism, democracy, and violence in transitional Cambodia - By Simon Springer: Book Reviews
The ‘Stubborn Stain’ on Development: Gendered Meanings of Housework (Non-)Participation in Cambodia
The persistence of intra-household inequality is widely regarded as a ‘stubborn stain’ on development achievements and aspirations. As a key hindrance, this article considers gendered meanings of housework undertaken in male-headed households of Siem Reap, Cambodia. Encompassing cooking, cleaning and child-care as forms of unpaid labour performed in the home, the article uses in-depth interviews to reveal the differential discourses that men and …
Mapping’ and ‘doing’ critical geographies of home
This paper reviews the diverse literatures on negative experiences of home at the domestic scale and sets out an agenda to further ‘critical geographies of home’. Tying into broader debates in critical geography on the delineations between the ‘mapping’ of exclusionary landscapes versus the ‘doing’ of something to transform them, the paper finds that the line between these two modes should not always be dichotomously drawn. Now is the time that t…
We don't forget the old rice pot when we get the new one: Discourses on Ideals and Practices of Women in Contemporary Cambodia
Drawing on microlevel research with men and women of differing ages living in rural and urban Siem Reap (home to the global heritage and tourist site of Angkor), this article focuses on the key discourses and practices that men and women draw on to (de)stabilize putatively traditional ideals of Cambodian womanhood and to (re)situate them in the contemporary period. Mapping the complex ways that people represent, make sense of, and respond to prer…
Geography, film and exploration: Women and amateur filmmaking in the Himalayas
Towards geographies of speech: Proverbial utterances of home in contemporary Vietnam
Whilst social life is discursively constituted, produced and reproduced through situated acts of speaking, this paper contends that geographers have failed to devote sustained attention to speech as a practice that provokes meanings in, and of, different spaces. Despite calls to human geographers 20 years ago by Yi-Fu Tuan to take speech seriously the paper demonstrates how geographers could benefit from greater engagement in practice; what dispo…
Visual Critiques of Tourist Development: Host-Employed Photography in Vietnam
A considerable amount of research within tourism studies has been undertaken into the desires, motivations and behaviours of tourists, yet resident perspectives on tourism have been largely overlooked. Moreover, there remains a discernable lack of research that harnesses creative methods that acknowledge the downplayed gaze of the host, particularly in the developing world. This paper pushes this agenda forward by using host-employed photography …
Geopolitics of Home
This paper reviews both established and emerging literatures that problematize conceptual divisions (once) held between the public arena of geopolitics on the one hand, and the so-called 'private sphere' of everyday life on the other. Tying into current concerns in critical and feminist geopolitics, I aim to understand how the home has been theorized and empirically researched as a material and ideological entity of geopolitical significance. The…
Geographies of domestic life: ‘Householding’ in transition in East and Southeast Asia
Plates in a basket will rattle’: Marital dissolution and home ‘unmaking’ in contemporary Cambodia
Gender or women? Debating the future of the W omen and G eography S tudy G roup
Naming the next generation: Early career perspectives on the future of the W omen and G eography S tudy G roup
By any other name? The Women and Geography Study Group
Names can be important, as an identity marker and public persona, especially if they shape our own and others' expectations – ask any woman named Hope or Patience. In this short piece we consider what the Women and Geography Study Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) represents to both those inside and outside the group in the 21st century and make a case for change to a more inclusionary title
For Home Un Making
Domestic Violence in Asia: Globalization, Gender and Islam in the Maldives
In Domestic Violence in Asia, Emma Fulu subverts the dominant direction of domestic violence scholarship by taking an alternative starting point. Rather than focusing on a linear trajectory which m
Participatory video drama research in transitional Vietnam: Post-production narratives on marriage, parenting and social evils
Based on two years of participatory video drama (PVD) research with men and women in the city of Huế, this article explores perspectives on, and experiences of, socio-economic transition and its influence on domestic life in Vietnam. Through a combination of output analysis, group screening sessions and individual interviews, it concentrates on the themes of marriage, parenting and ‘social evils’ which emerged in the PVD. It demonstrates how fami…
The Whole World Is Watching: Intimate Geopolitics of Forced Eviction and Women's Activism in Cambodia
Through fourteen in-depth interviews conducted in February 2013 with women from Boeung Kak Lake-a high-profile community under threat in Phnom Penh-this article argues that the occurrence of, and activism against, forced eviction is an embodiment of "intimate geopolitics." The article demonstrates the manifold relationship that forced eviction reflects and ferments between homes, bodies, the nation-state, and the geopolitical transformation of So…
Home interiors, national identity and curatorial practice in the art photography of Simryn Gill
In cultural geography, connections between home, identity, and multi-scalar notions of belonging are well established. Intersections between interior design and national identity are linked likewise to a broader material and symbolic politics of dwelling. Through an interview with the artist, alongside analysis of two exhibits focused on the domestic landscapes of Malaysia ('Dalam', 2001) and Australia ('Inland', 2009) - the paper explores ideas …
Towards intimate geographies of peace? Local reconciliation of domestic violence in Cambodia
This paper addresses the dearth of writing in geography on domestic violence and its misplaced absenteeism in dialogues on geographies of war and peace. It challenges a preoccupation with (inter)‐national landscapes of war and militarism through its focus on the (im)possibilities of (liberal) peace within the home. The paper attends to the everyday politics of efforts to reduce spousal violence via local reconciliation – a customary practice of c…
Participatory politics of partnership: Video workshops on domestic violence in C ambodia
In this paper we share insights from four participatory video workshops held in C ambodia as part of a three‐year project on domestic violence and legal reform under the ESRC / DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research scheme. The participatory politics that emerged from the workshops organised in partnership with a C ambodian gender‐oriented non‐governmental organisation ( NGO ) and an independent translator/co‐facilitator forms the crux …
Everyday Politics of (In)formal Marital Dissolution in Cambodia and Indonesia
Placing contemporary marriage and its dissolution at its heart, this paper explores rural women's experiences of customary and legal unions in Cambodia and Indonesia. We contend that women's navigation in-between 'informal' ethics and morals versus 'formal' state-sponsored legal doctrine constitute a form of 'everyday politics' that has been unduly neglected. Critiquing the taken-for-granted nature of marriage in academic scholarship, we show how…
The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia
Gauging the future prospects for traditional music in Cambodia is not easy. Without doubt, several of the country’s traditional genres are facing considerable and ongoing challenges, at least some of which may be traced back to the years of war and genocide. During the Khmer Rouge era, roughly half of all traditional music genres were lost (Visiting Arts 2001, 13) and an estimated 90 percent of artists lost their lives (Sam 1990 , 209). By some a…
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