Siam Mismapped
Revisiting the Territorial Dispute over the Preah Vihear Temple
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5837384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Lee (0000-0002-3625-1915, corresponding author), Sang Kook Lee (0000-0002-6353-3782, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-55 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South East Asia Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-828X • E-ISSN: 2043-6874 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5367/sear.2014.0196 |
| OpenAlex | W2320365493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper examines the territorial dispute over the Preah Vihear temple on the Thai-Cambodian border. It sheds new light on discussions of the geo-body and nationalism by engaging with cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard's notions of the simulacrum and hyperreality in association with maps. The dispute over the temple of Preah Vihear has centred on one particular map, known as the Annex 1 map, which locates the temple in Cambodian territory. The map has not remained an inanimate object, but has instead become a 'living thing' and attained something of a 'soul'. As a result, any sense of mismapping which results in the loss of territory is no other than the equivalent of a loss of the biological body, as a result of which real conflict ensues. This paper reveals the historical process of how the Annex 1 map has become a simulacrum in Baudrillard's sense of the term, to the extent that it creates an instance of hyperreality to which people are emotionally attached
Sense of place · Simulacrum · Soul · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Old societies and new states
The Invention Of Tradition
Simulacra and Simulation
A History of Cambodia
History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives
Deconstructing the Map
Myths and Memories of the N1ation
Khmerness and the Thai ‘Other’
The Changing Landscape of the Past
The Thai-Cambodian Temple Dispute
Toward a Comparative History of Borderlands
Border wars
Dean Acheson and the Korean War
Borders on the Fantastic
Millennialism, Theravāda Buddhism, and Thai Society
Map of Mainland Asia by Treaty
A Nationalist Metaphysics
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Cartography of National Humiliation and the Emergence of China's Geobody
Territorialization and state power in Thailand
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |