Beschreibung:
Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim is an Assistant Professor in International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Nigeria. His research interests include critical theory, political economy, and the impact of neoliberalism on countries like Cambodia and Nigeria.
Illuminating developments in contemporary Cambodia with political and aesthetic theory, this book analyses the country's violent transition from socialism to capitalism through an innovative method that combines the aesthetic approach and critical theory.
Introduction 1. The Third-Worlding of Cambodia 2. Jacotot in Cambodia 3. The Gaze and the Tain 4. A Cambodian Hauntology 5. Cambodian Literature as Heterotopia 6. Breakfast with the Dictator 7. Reassembling Memory 8. Precarious Lives