David P Chandler

Biographic Data

ID508321
NAMEDavid P Chandler
GIVEN NAMESDavid P
FAMILY NAMEChandler
SIGNATURECHANDLER D P
AFFILIATIONSAssociate Professor of History, Monash University, Australia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS49
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX4

  • Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide

    Boreth Ly, David P Chandler et al.BOOKTraces of Trauma2019

    How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and intellectuals, the erasure of individual and institutional cultural memory all caused great damage to Cambodian arts, culture, and society. Author Bor…

  • Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot

    David P ChandlerBOOKBrother Number One2018Cited by: 22

    "Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge." -William Shawcross New York Review of Books "A dramatic account of Pol Pot's rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodia's autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing and authoritative portrait of Brother Number One and a fascinating insight into Cambodia's cruel history." —Frederick Z. Brown New York Times Book Review "This first biogr…

  • The Policy Process

    David P ChandlerBOOKPolicy Process2017

  • Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Daud bin ‘Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia

    Francis R Bradley, David P Chandler et al.BOOKForging Islamic Power and Place2017

    Following a defeat by Siam in 1786, the Patani community experienced a period of displacement that resulted in many resettling elsewhere in the Malay world and Mecca. This marked the denouement for the old order of orangkaya in the region and the rise of a new moral order. Led by Daud bin Abd Allah al-Fatani, the ulama employed a knowledge network to spread handwritten texts bearing new ideas on the place of Islam in the community. Throughout the…

  • Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos

    Simon Creak, David P Chandler et al.BOOKEmbodied Nation2017

    This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions—from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state—through the lens of physical culture, Simon Creak's lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even fro…

  • Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia

    Gregory M Simon, David P Chandler et al.BOOKCaged in on the Outside2017

    Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon's book, based on extended ethnographic research in the small city of Bukittinggi, shines new light on Minangkabau social life by delving into people's interior lives, …

  • Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia

    L Ayu Saraswati, David P Chandler et al.BOOKSeeing Beauty, Sensing Race in…2017

    In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan; and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of A…

  • The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong

    Molland, Sverre Molland et al.BOOKPerfect Business? Anti-Trafficking…2017

    For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking organizations and governments commonly appropriate such market metaphors of supply and demand as they struggle with the moral-political dimensions of a business involving trade, labor, prostitution, …

  • Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia

    C Allerton, David P Chandler et al.BOOKPotent Landscapes2017

    The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make places and pathways "lively," re-traveling routes bet…

  • In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island

    Hannah Bulloch, Hannah C M Bulloch et al.BOOKIn pursuit of progress2017Cited by: 2

    How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people's identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people's histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a "Western" metaphor ordering global difference and as a banner under which diverse schemes for societal improvement find legitimacy and common purpose. But how is de…

  • Forging Islamic power and place: The legacy of Shaykh Dāʼūd bin ʻAbd Allāh al-Faṭānī in Mecca and Southeast Asia

    David P Chandler, Francis R Bradley et al.BOOKForging Islamic Power and Place2016

    Forging Islamic Power and Place / charts the nineteenth-century rise of a vast network of Islamic scholars stretching across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Arabia. Following the political and military collapse of the tiny Sultanate of Patani in what is now southern Thailand and northern Malaysia, a displaced community of scholars led by Shaykh D?'?d bin 'Abd All?h al-Fa?n? regrouped in Mecca. In the years that followed, al-Fa?n? composed …

  • Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace

    Ann Marie Leshkowich, David P Chandler et al.BOOKEssential Trade2014

    My husband doesn't have a head for business, complained Ng?c, the owner of a children's clothing stall in B?n Thanh market. Naturally, it's because he's a man. When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City's iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped by timeless, essential truths: Vietnamese women are naturally adept at buying and selling, while men are not; Vietnamese prefer to do business with family m…

  • Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia

    C Allerton, David P Chandler et al.BOOKPotent Landscapes2013

    The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make places and pathways "lively," re-traveling routes bet…

  • Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia

    David P Chandler, L Ayu Saraswati et al.BOOKSeeing Beauty, Sensing Race in…2013

    In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. This book explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan; and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of American culture. Th…

  • Facing the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Journey

    David P Chandler, RONNIE YIMSUT et al.BOOKFacing the Khmer Rouge2011

  • People of virtue: Reconfiguring religion, power and morality in Cambodia today

    Alexandra Kent, D Chandler et al.BOOKPeople of Virtue2008

    Much attention has been given to the 'killing fields' of Cambodia, far less to how the country can recover and heal itself after such an experience. Crucial to this process has been the formation of a new moral order in Cambodia and hence the revival of religion in the country. Certainly, the regeneration of the ritual life of a community may offer ways for people to formulate and relate to their collective stories through symbolism that recalls …

  • At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler

    David P Chandler, Anne Ruth Hansen et al.BOOKAt the Edge of the Forest2008

    Inspired by David Chandler's groundbreaking work on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, examining the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet

  • The Policy Process: A Practical Guide for Natural Resources Professionals

    David P Chandler, Susan G ClarkBOOKPolicy Process2002

  • Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot

    D Gordon Longmuir, David P ChandlerARTICLEPacific Affairs2000

  • Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison

    David Chandler, David P ChandlerBOOKVoices from S-211999

  • Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot

    Laura Summers, David P ChandlerARTICLEPacific Affairs1995

  • The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War and Revolution Since 1945

    Pamela Sodhy, David P ChandlerARTICLEPacific Affairs1994

    Introduction 1 In Search of Independence, 1945-1950 2 Political Warfare, 1950-1955 3 Sithanouk Unopposed, 1956-1962 4 Cambodia Clouds Over, 1963-1966 5 Changing the Rules, 1967-1969 6 Sliding Towards Chaos, 1970-1975 7 Revolution in Cambodia, 1975-1979 8 Inside the Typhoon: Testimonies

  • Democratisation in Cambodia: Here today and gone tomorrow

    D Chandler, David P ChandlerARTICLEAsian Studies Review1993

  • Kampuchea: Politics, Economics and Society

    D Chandler, David P Chandler et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1989

  • In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History (Revised Edition)

    John R W Smail, Robert H Taylor et al.BOOKIn Search of Southeast Asia1987

    In Search of Southeast Asia by David P. Chandler, William R. Roff, John R. W. Smail, David Joel Steinberg, Robert H. Taylor, Alexander Woodside, David K. Wyatt was published on May 25, 2021 by University of Hawaii Press.