Abstract
This article examines processes of knowledge production around mass violence in 1970s Cambodia including media reportage and coeval scholarly debate, developing a conceptualisation of colonial abridgment. It assesses operations by which Cambodia as a country is violently essentialised, the occurrence of mass violence taking on metonymic grandeur that works to deny imperial legacies, entomb modern Cambodia in a hermetically sealed past and thereby maintain global order within existing racial-colonial logics.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 389 |
Number of pages | 404 |
Journal | Third World Quarterly |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 22 2019 |
Keywords
- Genocide
- Cambodia
- abridgment
- neocolonialism
- mass violence