Angkor, Cambodia's only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the
most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history.
Given Cambodia's need to restore its shattered social and physical
infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism
to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a
decade, the site has become an intense focal point of competing
agendas. Angkor's immense historical importance, along with its
global prestige, has led to an unprecedented influx of aid, with
over twenty countries together donating millions of dollars for
conservation and research. For the Royal Government however, Angkor
has become a 'cash-cow' of development. Post-conflict Heritage,
Postcolonial Tourism critically examines this situation and locates
Angkor within the broader contexts of post-conflict reconstruction,
nation building, and socio-economic rehabilitation. Based on two
years of fieldwork, the book explores culture, development, the
politics of space, and the relationship between consumption, memory
and identity to reveal the aspirations and tensions, anxieties and
paradoxical agendas, which form around a heritage tourism landscape
in a post-conflict, postcolonial society. With the situation in
Cambodia examined as a stark example of a phenomenon common to many
countries attempting to recover after periods of war or political
turmoil, Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism will be of
particular interest to students and scholars working in the fields
of Asian studies, tourism, heritage, development, and cultural and
postcolonial studies.
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