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Forest of Struggle - Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia (Hardcover, New)
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Forest of Struggle - Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia (Hardcover, New)
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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 neighbouring 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.
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