Articles tagged "Genocide"
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Design of Tuol Sleng
After taking control of Cambodia in 1979, the Vietnamese, seeking to legitimize their unpopular occupation, quickly capitalized upon Tuol Sleng’s propaganda ...read »
Discussion of Tuol Sleng
Tuol Sleng has been instrumental in the creation of a master narrative of the past that legitimizes Cambodia’s current ruling party and projects the aura of ...read »Tourism and Memory Sites
Tourism is typically associated with pleasure and fun, vacation and escape. What happens, then, when a memorial to mass atrocity becomes a tourist site? In ...read »News
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There has been much written about how Choeung Ek has been used to political and nationalistic ends, but little on the site’s current use as an educational resource. With this in mind, ICTJ’s Louis Bickford conducted a survey of visitors to Choeung Ek.
The New York Times has a 1999 account of the annual Day of Hate ceremony at Choeung Ek.
The Documentation Center of Cambodia has a great deal of information on mass grave sites throughout Cambodia and on the Khmer Rouge in general.
Bickford, Louis “Transforming a Legacy of Genocide: Pedagogy and Tourism at the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek.” Memory, Memorials, and Museums (MMM) Program, International Center for Transitional Justice, February 2009.
Hughes, Rachel “The Abject Artefacts of Memory: Photographs from Cambodia’s Genocide.” Media, Culture & Society 25 (2003): 23-44.
Hughes, Rachel “Memory and Sovereignty in Post-1979 Cambodia: Choeung Ek and Local Genocide Memorials.” In Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives, edited by Susan E. Cook, 257-279. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers: 2006.
Williams, Paul “The Atrocity Exhibition: Touring Cambodian Genocide Memorials.” In On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies, edited by A. Smith and Wevers, 197-214. Wellington: Victoria University Press: 2004.
Hughes, Rachel “Nationalism and Memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.” In Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, edited by Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone, 175-192. London: Routledge: 2003.
Hughes, Rachel “Witnessing Genocide: Vigilance and Remembrance at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 18, no. 2 (2004): 234-254.
Hughes, Rachel “The Abject Artefacts of Memory: Photographs from Cambodia’s Genocide.” Media, Culture & Society 25 (2003): 23-44.
Hughes, Rachel “Memory and Sovereignty in Post-1979 Cambodia: Choeung Ek and Local Genocide Memorials.” In Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives, edited by Susan E. Cook, 257-79. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006.
Hughes, Rachel “Dutiful tourism: Encountering the Cambodian genocide.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint 49, no. 3 (December 2008): p318-330. [Addresses questions of ‘dark tourism’ at Tuol Sleng.]
Wheeler, David L. “Documenting Genocide in Cambodia, One Face After Another.” Chronicle of Higher Education 45, no. 38 (May 28, 1999): B2.
Williams, Paul “The Atrocity Exhibition: Touring Cambodian Genocide Memorials.” In On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies, edited by A. Smith and Wevers, 197-214. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004.
Williams, Paul “Nationalism and Memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.” In Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, edited by Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone, 175-92. London: Routledge, 2003.
Williams, Paul “Witnessing Genocide: Vigilance and Remembrance at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 18, no. 2 (2004): 234-254.
