The Whole World Is Watching

Intimate Geopolitics of Forced Eviction and Women's Activism in Cambodia

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ID5831455
AuthorsKatherine Brickell (0000-0002-0638-6106, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume104
Issue6
Pages1256-1272
Publication date2014-09-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherAmerican Association of Geographers (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00045608.2014.944452
OpenAlexW1967098760
LanguageEN
Citations received77
References cited71

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 Southeast Asia. Forced eviction is framed as a geopolitical issue, one that leads to innermost incursions into everyday life, one that has spurred on active citizenship and collective action evidencing the injustices of dispossession to diverse audiences, and one that has rendered female activists' intimate relationships further vulnerable. In doing so, it charts how Boeung Kak Lake women have rewritten the political script in Cambodia by publicly contesting the inevitability accorded to human rights abuses in the post-genocide country

Eviction · Geopolitics · Cambodian History and Society · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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