Kakak Kemboja
Kakak Kemboja

Author: Naim Tamdjis

Publisher: Buku Prima

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9674463186

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"Mak... ada orang teman adik malam-malam..." Siti adalah seorang ibu tunggal telah dihalau oleh emak mentua dan abang iparnya dari rumah peninggalan suaminya. Bersama anaknya, Johari yang berusia sembilan tahun, mereka berdua terpaksa berpindah ke sebuah rumah flat di Bandar Baru Bangi kerana dia bekerja di salah sebuah kilang di sana. Memandangkan Siti sering bekerja lebih masa pada setiap malam minggu, maka tinggallah Johari seorang diri di rumah. Johari sentiasa terdengar bunyi aneh dan gangguan sama ada dari dalam atau luar rumahnya. Pada suatu hari, Johari menyiasat dari mana datangnya bunyi aneh itu dan dia terserempak dengan Kakak Kemboja. Mereka berdua menjadi 'kawan' sejak hari itu dan Kakak Kemboja berjanji akan melindungi Johari. “Adik, tolong abang. Abang ada hutang dengan adik. Tolong abang, dik.”- Jelmaan Salleh. “Aku selalu tengok dia cakap seorang diri. Kadang-kadang macam berbisik.”- Khamis Al Jafri “Akak kan dah janji nak jaga adik?” - Kakak Kemboja

Hun Sen's Cambodia
Hun Sen's Cambodia

Author: Sebastian Strangio

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0300190727

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A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers an eye-opening appraisal of modern-day Cambodia in the years following its emergence from bitter conflict and bloody upheaval. In the early 1990s, Cambodia became the focus of the UN's first great post-Cold War nation-building project, with billions in international aid rolling in to support the fledgling democracy. But since the UN-supervised elections in 1993, the nation has slipped steadily backward into neo-authoritarian rule under Prime Minister Hun Sen. Behind a mirage of democracy, ordinary people have few rights and corruption infuses virtually every facet of everyday life. In this lively and compelling study, the first of its kind, Strangio explores the present state of Cambodian society under Hun Sen's leadership, painting a vivid portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile the promise of peace and democracy with a violent and tumultuous past.

Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia
Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia

Author: Kathrin Eitel

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-06

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1000656047

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This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of waste and practices through ‘infracycles’, maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order, and postcolonial ways of doing politics that co-constitute predominant waste fantasies from which naturecultures ooze out, shaping urban life in their own way. In this context, socially marginalized waste pickers contest the capitalist system by creating tropes about freedom, labor autonomy, and the will to survive. In this regard, they are also meddling about a new social order that represents the fine line Cambodia is sashaying between tradition and modernity. Waste fantasies that are a result of environmental problematizations, however, perpetuate postcolonial ways of doing politics by exuding notions of waste as detached from its sociocultural context. But ultimately, waste slips through the cracks of these dominant imaginaries and global waste reduction models enacting new versions of what waste and the city is, providing opportunities for another future waste policy. This book is a unique contribution to the field of infrastructure studies emphasizing the importance of perceiving infrastructure as circular in smaller ‘infracycles’, rather than linear. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, urban studies, and Southeast Asian studies. The Introduction of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia
The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia

Author: Katherine Brickell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1317567838

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Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the country, The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia provides a broad coverage of social, cultural, political and economic development within both rural and urban contexts during the last decade. A detailed introduction places Cambodia within its global and regional frame, and the handbook is then divided into five thematic sections: Political and Economic Tensions Rural Developments Urban Conflicts Social Processes Cultural Currents The first section looks at the major political implications and tensions that have occurred in Cambodia, as well as the changing parameters of its economic profile. The handbook then highlights the major developments that are unfolding within the rural sphere, before moving on to consider how cities in Cambodia, and particularly Phnom Penh, have become primary sites of change. The fourth section covers the major processes that have shaped social understandings of the country, and how Cambodians have come to understand themselves in relation to each other and the outside world. Section five analyses the cultural dimensions of Cambodia’s current experience, and how identity comes into contact with and responds to other cultural themes. Bringing together a team of leading scholars on Cambodia, the handbook presents an understanding of how sociocultural and political economic processes in the country have evolved. It is a cutting edge and interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as policymakers, sociologists and political scientists with an interest in contemporary Cambodia.

Cambodia’s China Strategy
Cambodia’s China Strategy

Author: Chanborey Cheunboran

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-21

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1000378330

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This book explores the tensions within Cambodia’s foreign policy between a tight alignment with China, on the one hand, and Cambodia’s commitment to the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as its delicate foreign policy diversification towards other major powers, on the other hand. It traces the long history of Cambodia’s quest for survival from its bigger and historically antagonistic neighbours – the Thai and the Vietnamese – and its struggle for security and independence from the two neighbours and external major powers, particularly the United States and China. It discusses Cambodia’s geopolitical predicaments deriving from its location of being sandwiched between powerful neighbours and limited strategic options available for the Kingdom. The book also assesses recent developments in Cambodia’s relations with its neighbours and their implications for Cambodia’s increasingly tight alignment with China in recent years. It considers the extent to which the ruling regime in Cambodia depends on strong relations with China for its legitimacy and survival and argues that there are risks and danger for Cambodia in moving towards an increasingly tight alignment with China.

Cambodia's Curse
Cambodia's Curse

Author: Joel Brinkley

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1610390016

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and introduce democracy in the 1990s, in the country remained in the grip of a venal government. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley learned that almost a half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffered from P.T.S.D. -- and had passed their trauma to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.