Violence, Democracy, and the Neoliberal “Order”
The Contestation of Public Space in Posttransitional Cambodia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Springer (0000-0002-0064-7440, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 138-162 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045600802223333 |
| OpenAlex | W2029148041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 115 |
Neoliberal policies explain why authoritarianism and violence remain the principal modes of governance among many ruling elites in posttransitional settings. Using Cambodia as an empirical case to illustrate the neoliberalizing process, the promotion of intense marketization is revealed as a foremost causal factor in a country's inability to consolidate democracy following political transition. Neoliberalization effectively acts to suffocate an indigenous burgeoning of democratic politics. Such asphyxiation is brought to bear under the neoliberal rhetoric of order and stability, which can be read through the (re)production of public space. The preoccupation with order and stability serves the interests of capital at the global level and political elites at the level of the nation-state. Citizens themselves may fiercely contest these particular interests in a quest for a more radical democracy, as evidenced by the burgeoning geographies of protest that have emerged in Cambodian public spaces in the posttransition era
Authoritarianism · China · CONTEST · Democracy · Marketization · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public space · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Citations per year | 3,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |