Sketching an Institutional History of Academic Knowledge Production in Cambodia (1863 2009) Part 1

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ID6086405
AuthorsM F Peycam Philippe (corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume25
Issue2
Pages153-177
Publication date2010-10-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858
PublisherISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1355/sj25-2a
OpenAlexW2135036454
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited16

This paper focuses on the institutional mode of academic knowledge production in Cambodia since the beginning of the colonial period. It addresses the importance of French official orientalism represented by the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient and its role in constructing a reified narrative of the nation state of Cambodia centred on the Angkorian golden age while orientating intellectual modernization through the renovation of Buddhism. This top-down approach was pursued by the successive post-independence regimes — to the exclusion of the Rouge who systematically destroyed Cambodia's intellectual and cultural life. In contradiction with state initiatives, a few researchers — mostly French and Cambodians — chose to orientate their research toward ethnographically relevant subjects, taking Cambodian society as principal agent of cultural and historical meaning. This trend, referred to as Khmer studies, found its programmatic autonomy among exiled Cambodian intellectuals in the 1980s, paving the way for grass-root initiatives developed in Cambodia in the wake of its reopening in the 1990s

Economics · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Microeconomics · Political science · Production (economics · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Computer Science · History · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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