
- 244 pages
- English
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About this book
Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system. Competing nationalistic imaginings are shown to be a more prominent part of party political contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia than typically believed. For political parties, nationalistic imaginings became the basis for strategies to attract popular support, electoral victories, and moral legitimacy. Astrid Norén-Nilsson uses uncommon sources, such as interviews with key contemporary political actors, to analyze Cambodia's postconflict reconstruction politics. This book exposes how nationalist imaginings, typically understood to be associated with political opposition, have been central to the reworking of political identities and legitimacy bids across the political spectrum. Norén-Nilsson examines the entanglement of notions of democracy and national identity and traces out a tension between domestic elite imaginings and the liberal democratic framework in which they operate
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Cambodia’s Second Kingdom
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by David Chandler
- Preface
- Biographical Notes Hun Sen, Norodom Ranariddh, Sam Rainsy, Kem Sokha
- CHAPTER ONE Cambodia’s Second Kingdom: Starting Points
- CHAPTER TWO Of Hun Sen: The Sdech Kân Narrative
- CHAPTER THREE Royalists: Between Embodiment and Doctrine
- CHAPTER FOUR Democrats: Democracy and the Post-PPA Nation
- CHAPTER FIVE Reassessing Political Contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index