Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia
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Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia
About this book
In 1939, the German sociologist Norbert Elias published his groundbreaking work The Civilizing Process, which has come to be regarded as one of the most influential works of sociology today. In this insightful new study tracing the history of violence in Cambodia, the authors evaluate the extent to which Elias's theories can be applied in a non-Western context. Drawing from historical and contemporary archival sources, constabulary statistics, victim surveys and newspaper reports, Broadhurst, Bouhours and Bouhours chart trends and forms of violence throughout Cambodia from the mid-nineteenth century through to the present day. Analysing periods of colonisation, anti-colonial wars, interdependence, civil war, the revolutionary terror of the 1970s and post-conflict development, the authors assess whether violence has decreased and whether such a decline can be attributed to Elias's civilising process, identifying a series of universal factors that have historically reduced violence.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Map of Cambodia
- Introduction
- 1 Resistance of a peasant society
- 2 Patterns of premodern criminality
- 3 Development of the colonial state: modernisation and control
- 4 The ‘golden age’ of the Protectorate: 1920–1940
- 5 The anticolonial war: 1940–1955
- 6 The golden years of Sihanoukism: 1955–1966
- 7 Criminal states and civil wars: 1967–1975
- 8 The perfect storm: decivilising state and society: 1975–1979
- 9 Reconstruction in the midst of a civil war: pariahs, bandits, and international accomplices: 1979–1991
- 10 Crime and violence in contemporary Cambodia: 1991–2012
- 11 Civilising processes and violence in contemporary Cambodia
- 12 Discussion
- Appendix: Historical data
- References
- Index