Daniel Bultmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 273293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Bultmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bultmann |
| SIGNATURE | BULTMANN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5465-2010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From prosthetic memory to prosthetic denial
The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) can influence how historical narratives are disseminated and perceived. This study explores the implications of LLMs’ responses on the representation of mass atrocity memory, examining whether generative AI systems contribute to prosthetic memory, i.e., mediated experiences of historical events, or to what we term “prosthetic denial,” the AI-mediated erasure or distortion of atrocity memories. We …
Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency
Conflict and Elite Formation in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia
The article focuses on a comparative analysis of conflict and elite formation in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia; it argues that societal conflicts in Southeast Asia are grounded in the historical formation of elite social structures within differing sociocultures and that major and long-lasting societal conflicts—both violent and non-violent—occur in social spaces between ‘power elite’ groups. Additionally, it shows how up-and-coming elite groups ar…
Asian Alleyways
Social Ontology, Sociocultures, and Inequality in the Global South
"Challenging the assumption that that the capitalist transformation includes a radical break with the past, this edited volume traces how historically older forms of social inequality are transformed but persist in the present to shape the social structure of contemporary societies in the global South. Each society comprises an interpretation of itself - including the meaning of life, the concept of a human being and the notion of a collective. T…
Evidence and Expert Authority via Symbolic Violence
A critique of current knowledge production on perpetrators which addresses the lack of awareness and discussion of the existence of a fieldwork industry and its impact on data collection in numerous qualitative studies
Gewalt und Ordnung unter den Roten Khmer
David Byrne, Class after Industry. A Complex Realist Approach. Cham
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich
Social Ontology, Sociocultures and Inequality in the Global South
Clashing social ontologies
This chapter analyzes the current Cambodian political elite as a fragmented social field with competing groups fighting for hegemonic control over the state apparatus. It traces the creation of these competing elite groups, through a historical account of significant transformations within the social fabric of the political field. It argues that transformations such as colonialism, anti-colonial resistance, civil war and genocide, foreign occupat…
S-21 as a Liminal Power Regime
The article analyzes the structure, scripts, and procedural logics behind the violent practices in S-21, the central prison of the Khmer Rouge, as a liminal power regime. The institution’s violent practices and operations served to reveal a “Vietnameseness” and/or otherness within the victims and to prove not only their guilt regarding a singular crime but also a long history of treason and collaboration with the Vietnamese, as well as a moral sh…
Social Order of Postconflict Transformation in Cambodia
Drawing on data from three different insurgent groups within the Cambodian conflict, the book shows how the social backgrounds of combatants and commanders cause them to pursue different strategies during a decade-long transition into various postconflict settings, thereby creating different “pathways to peace.” By highlighting different vertical and horizontal ranks within the insurgent groups and the role of belligerents’ resources and networks…
Insurgent Groups During Post-Conflict Transformation
The article discusses the experiences of a group of military strongmen during the post-conflict transformation of two Cambodian insurgent movements into a society of peace after a decades-long civil war. It explains the reasons why some of these strongmen were able to transfer their high status within the insurgency into senior positions in the incumbent government, while others became impoverished and sometimes even preferred to relapse into fur…
The social structure of armed groups. Reproduction and change during and after conflict
Current research on civil wars and conflict increasingly turns to the inner structure and functioning of state and non-state armed groups and their impact on aspects such as violent practice, internal cohesion and the dissolution of these groups during the conversion to peace. The first aim of this introduction is to set out the theme of this Special Issue on the social structure of armed groups and previous research within the field. The second …
Kambodscha unter den Roten Khmer
»Um eine neue Gesellschaft errichten zu können, müssen neue Menschen erschaffen werden« – so der Slogan der Roten Khmer. Daniel Bultmanns Buch zeichnet die Ursprünge der Bewegung unter Pol Pot, die Maßnahmen zur Umformung des Staates, die Ursachen für die Eskalation der Gewalt und das Nachleben der Kommunistischen Partei Kambodschas nach. Die Revolution der Roten Khmer gilt als eines der brutalsten und radikalsten Staatsverbrechen des 20. Jahrhun…
Inside Cambodian Insurgency
There are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined inside the field of insurgency. While some commanders punish by inflicting physical pain, others use re-educative methods. While some prepare soldiers by using close-knit combat simulations, others send their subordinates immediately into battle. While these variations cannot fully be explained by the ideological set-up of different groups o…
Analyzing the Cambodian insurgency as a social field
This article investigates power practices in the Cambodian insurgency after 1979 as being part of a social field. There are various types of power practice being exercised by commanders aiming at making soldiers disciplined inside the insurgency. The hypothesis explaining these variations being proposed here is that the type of power being exercised depends on the habitus of the respective commander. Power practices are shaped by the incorporated…
The social structure of armed groups. Reproduction and change during and after conflict
Current research on civil wars and conflict increasingly turns to the inner structure and functioning of state and non-state armed groups and their impact on aspects such as violent practice, internal cohesion and the dissolution of these groups during the conversion to peace. The first aim of this introduction is to set out the theme of this Special Issue on the social structure of armed groups and previous research within the field. The second …
Insurgent Groups During Post-Conflict Transformation
The article discusses the experiences of a group of military strongmen during the post-conflict transformation of two Cambodian insurgent movements into a society of peace after a decades-long civil war. It explains the reasons why some of these strongmen were able to transfer their high status within the insurgency into senior positions in the incumbent government, while others became impoverished and sometimes even preferred to relapse into fur…
Analyzing the Cambodian insurgency as a social field
This article investigates power practices in the Cambodian insurgency after 1979 as being part of a social field. There are various types of power practice being exercised by commanders aiming at making soldiers disciplined inside the insurgency. The hypothesis explaining these variations being proposed here is that the type of power being exercised depends on the habitus of the respective commander. Power practices are shaped by the incorporated…
Analyzing the Cambodian insurgency as a social field
This article investigates power practices in the Cambodian insurgency after 1979 as being part of a social field. There are various types of power practice being exercised by commanders aiming at making soldiers disciplined inside the insurgency. The hypothesis explaining these variations being proposed here is that the type of power being exercised depends on the habitus of the respective commander. Power practices are shaped by the incorporated…
Inside Cambodian Insurgency
There are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined inside the field of insurgency. While some commanders punish by inflicting physical pain, others use re-educative methods. While some prepare soldiers by using close-knit combat simulations, others send their subordinates immediately into battle. While these variations cannot fully be explained by the ideological set-up of different groups o…
Kambodscha unter den Roten Khmer
»Um eine neue Gesellschaft errichten zu können, müssen neue Menschen erschaffen werden« – so der Slogan der Roten Khmer. Daniel Bultmanns Buch zeichnet die Ursprünge der Bewegung unter Pol Pot, die Maßnahmen zur Umformung des Staates, die Ursachen für die Eskalation der Gewalt und das Nachleben der Kommunistischen Partei Kambodschas nach. Die Revolution der Roten Khmer gilt als eines der brutalsten und radikalsten Staatsverbrechen des 20. Jahrhun…
Social Order of Postconflict Transformation in Cambodia
Drawing on data from three different insurgent groups within the Cambodian conflict, the book shows how the social backgrounds of combatants and commanders cause them to pursue different strategies during a decade-long transition into various postconflict settings, thereby creating different “pathways to peace.” By highlighting different vertical and horizontal ranks within the insurgent groups and the role of belligerents’ resources and networks…
Insurgent Groups During Post-Conflict Transformation
The article discusses the experiences of a group of military strongmen during the post-conflict transformation of two Cambodian insurgent movements into a society of peace after a decades-long civil war. It explains the reasons why some of these strongmen were able to transfer their high status within the insurgency into senior positions in the incumbent government, while others became impoverished and sometimes even preferred to relapse into fur…
The social structure of armed groups. Reproduction and change during and after conflict
Current research on civil wars and conflict increasingly turns to the inner structure and functioning of state and non-state armed groups and their impact on aspects such as violent practice, internal cohesion and the dissolution of these groups during the conversion to peace. The first aim of this introduction is to set out the theme of this Special Issue on the social structure of armed groups and previous research within the field. The second …
Social Ontology, Sociocultures, and Inequality in the Global South
"Challenging the assumption that that the capitalist transformation includes a radical break with the past, this edited volume traces how historically older forms of social inequality are transformed but persist in the present to shape the social structure of contemporary societies in the global South. Each society comprises an interpretation of itself - including the meaning of life, the concept of a human being and the notion of a collective. T…
Evidence and Expert Authority via Symbolic Violence
A critique of current knowledge production on perpetrators which addresses the lack of awareness and discussion of the existence of a fieldwork industry and its impact on data collection in numerous qualitative studies
Gewalt und Ordnung unter den Roten Khmer
David Byrne, Class after Industry. A Complex Realist Approach. Cham
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich
Social Ontology, Sociocultures and Inequality in the Global South
Clashing social ontologies
This chapter analyzes the current Cambodian political elite as a fragmented social field with competing groups fighting for hegemonic control over the state apparatus. It traces the creation of these competing elite groups, through a historical account of significant transformations within the social fabric of the political field. It argues that transformations such as colonialism, anti-colonial resistance, civil war and genocide, foreign occupat…
S-21 as a Liminal Power Regime
The article analyzes the structure, scripts, and procedural logics behind the violent practices in S-21, the central prison of the Khmer Rouge, as a liminal power regime. The institution’s violent practices and operations served to reveal a “Vietnameseness” and/or otherness within the victims and to prove not only their guilt regarding a singular crime but also a long history of treason and collaboration with the Vietnamese, as well as a moral sh…
Asian Alleyways
Conflict and Elite Formation in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia
The article focuses on a comparative analysis of conflict and elite formation in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia; it argues that societal conflicts in Southeast Asia are grounded in the historical formation of elite social structures within differing sociocultures and that major and long-lasting societal conflicts—both violent and non-violent—occur in social spaces between ‘power elite’ groups. Additionally, it shows how up-and-coming elite groups ar…
Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency
From prosthetic memory to prosthetic denial
The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) can influence how historical narratives are disseminated and perceived. This study explores the implications of LLMs’ responses on the representation of mass atrocity memory, examining whether generative AI systems contribute to prosthetic memory, i.e., mediated experiences of historical events, or to what we term “prosthetic denial,” the AI-mediated erasure or distortion of atrocity memories. We …
Political science (13 works) · Cambodian History and Society (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Insurgency (4 works)