Forest of struggle : moralities of remembrance in upland Cambodia

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Label

Forest of struggle : moralities of remembrance in upland Cambodia

Title remainder

moralities of remembrance in upland Cambodia

Statement of responsibility

Eve Monique Zucker

Creator

• Zucker, Eve Monique

Subject

• Cambodge
• Cambodia
• Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979
• Cambodia -- History | 1975-1979
• Cambodia -- Social life and customs
• Collective memory
• Collective memory -- Cambodia
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- Asia | Southeast Asia
• History
• Kollektives Gedächtnis
• Ländlicher Raum
• Manners and customs
• Rote Khmer
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | General
• Social change
• Social change -- Cambodia
• Sozialer Wandel
• 1975-1979

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

In a village community in the highlands of Cambodia's Southwest, people struggle to rebuild their lives after nearly thirty years of war and genocide. Recovery is a tenuous process as villagers attempt to shape a future while contending with the terrible rupture of the Pol Pot era. Forest of Struggle tracks the fragile progress of restoring the bonds of community in O'Thmaa and its environs, the site of a Khmer Rouge base and battlefield for nearly three decades between 1970 and 1998. Anthropologist Eve Zucker's ethnographic fieldwork (2001-2003, 2010) uncovers the experiences of the people of O'Thmaa in the early days of the revolution, when some villagers turned on each other with lethal results. She examines memories of violence and considers the means by which relatedness and moral order are re-established, comparing O'Thmaa with villages in a neighboring commune that suffered similar but not identical trauma. Zucker argues that those differing experiences shape present ways of healing and making the future. Events had a devastating effect on the social and moral order at the time and continue to impair the remaking of sociality and civil society today, impacting villagers' responses to changes in recent years. More positively, Zucker persuasively illustrates how Cambodians employ indigenous means to reconcile their painful memories of loss and devastation. This point is noteworthy given current debates on recovery surrounding the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Forest of Struggle offers a compelling case study that is relevant to anyone interested in post-conflict recovery, social memory, the anthropology of morality and violence, and Cambodia studies

Member of

• Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

E7B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

In English

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Southeast Asia : politics, meaning, and memory