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- DeFalco, Randle C., et al.
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The Fluctuating Visibility of Everyday Violence in Khmer Rouge Era Cambodia
- 2022
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Ingår i: Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 1556-5068. ; 31:2, s. 217-243
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This Article explores how the atrocities committed in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979) have been narrated over time and how, through such narration, slow and attritive everyday forms of atrocity violence have been alternately rendered visible or invisible. It does so by looking at how Khmer Rouge–era atrocities have been framed, while focusing on identifying what forms of violence and killing have been branded, legally and socially, as “atrocity crimes,” and what forms of violence have been obscured, backgrounded, or otherwise deemphasized. In doing so, this Article assesses the relationship between international, national, and local understandings of this complex history, expressing concern that dominant narratives developed by national and international elites may be influencing or even displacing localized notions of violence, atrocity, and justice. This Article concludes by calling for efforts to actively foreground everyday as well as spectacular manifestations of atrocity violence and experiences thereof.
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- Sirik, Savina
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Everyday Experience of Genocide Survivors in Landscapes of Violence
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This research examines the experiences of survivors who live in an unmarked site of mass violence in Cambodia, i.e., the former Khmer Rouge prison site of Chamkar Siv in Kandal Province, during and after the Democratic Kampuchea regime (1975-79). Based on oral history interviews with survivors, this paper constructs narratives of survivors’ experiences in the landscapes of violence. The findings from this study are twofold. First, individual narratives are important in providing a more complete understanding of the production of violence and acts of commemoration at the local level, despite the fact that memories of past violence have been politicized and constructed to fit within the present dominant narrative. Second, although there are variations among individual experiences, survivors’ narratives are constructed in a way that corresponds to the larger historical narratives.
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- Sirik, Savina
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Memory construction of former Khmer Rouge cadres: resistance to dominant discourses of genocide in Cambodia
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Political Power. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2158-379X .- 2158-3803. ; 13:2, s. 233-251
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the context of post-genocide Cambodia, this article explores resistance as the product of knowledge derived from the entanglement of official and personal memories of the Khmer Rouge (KR) period. By examining two public exhibitions produced by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), namely, Forced Transfers: The Second Evacuation of the Khmer Rouge Regime and Life Experiences of Former Khmer Rouge Cadres, the article argues that narratives of the KR period as portrayed by the exhibits have the potential to destabilize official narratives by disrupting the homogeneity of dominant narratives and challenging reductive dichotomies of victim and perpetrator.
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- Sirik, Savina
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Negotiating Memories : Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of victimhood as constructed in narratives. To this end, it explores how people who have been socially and politically ascribed as perpetrators construct and negotiate victimhood through narratives after a period of war and mass atrocity and how they are represented in narratives and practices of memorialization. Based on fieldwork conducted at various sites in Cambodia, this thesis examines former Khmer Rouge (KR) memories and their claims of victimhood and analyzes how images of victims are represented in narratives and practices of memorialization in post-conflict Cambodia. The thesis contributes theoretically and empirically to knowledge in the body of literature on victimhood and memorialization, as well as the Cambodian scholarship on survivor narratives. Firstly, the thesis contributes theoretically to research on victimhood and temporality in transitional justice by illuminating how multiple temporalities and time collapse may be employed to better encapsulate the continuity of violence and suffering and the co-existence of these experiences in the past, present, and future. Secondly, the thesis offers insight into the various ways in which people construct victimhood. Rather than focusing on resisting the image of the ideal victim or maintaining discourses that might have victimized them, the study finds that people draw on the attributions of the ideal victim, among other things, to construct victimhood, and negotiate their KR identity and the perpetrator label. Thirdly, the study provides insights into the ambivalence of representing the identities of people who were simultaneously victimized and participated in atrocities. While efforts to include individual narratives of former KR in the memorials and exhibitions are evidenced, the representation of their experiences and identities remains limited to the image of the ideal victim. This practice has resulted in an obfuscation of the complex and diverse nature of the experiences of former Khmer Rouge during the DK regime, including their roles supporting the regime, as well as their victimization, heroism, and survival. Finally, the study also adds new empirical insights to the literature of post-genocide Cambodia by providing detailed and rich narratives of former KR survivors concerning their claims of victimhood, as well as exploring representations of victims in multiple sites of memorialization.
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- Sirik, Savina, Postdoctoral Researcher, et al.
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Violence and Memorialization in Cambodia
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Ingår i: The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia. - : Routledge. - 9780367581473 ; , s. 368-377
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- Tyner, James A., et al.
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Nature, Poetry, and Public Pedagogy: The Poetic Geographies of the Khmer Rouge
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Ingår i: Annals of the Association of American Geographers. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0004-5608 .- 1467-8306. ; 105:6, s. 1285-1299
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Between 1975 and 1979, more than 2 million men, women, and children died in what has become known as the Cambodian genocide. In just under four years, approximately one-quarter of the country's prewar population succumbed to arbitrary murder, torture, detention, starvation, and disease. Amidst these acts of destruction, however, the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK; the Khmer Rouge) advanced various pedagogical practices, including the promotion of poetry. Superficially, poems produced by the Khmer Rouge are literary forms of propaganda. Such a conclusion is incomplete. Through a reading of Khmer Rouge–era poetry, this article contributes to two themes in geography: fictive and public pedagogy. We argue that the Khmer Rouge used poetry as a form of public pedagogy. More specifically, Khmer Rouge–era poetry presented nature as the fulcrum on which society was to be transformed. The cultivation of a proper political consciousness required the nurturing of a community identity of what Democratic Kampuchea was to become. This argument is developed in five sections. First, we provide a brief overview of literary geographies. We then consider the transformative power of public education. Third, we provide an overview of educational policies under the Khmer Rouge. This is followed by a discussion of nature as conceived by the CPK. Our main empirical analysis of Khmer Rouge poetry is presented in the fifth section. Finally, we conclude with a consideration of the politics of creative interventions as a form of public pedagogy.
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