Refugee lifeworlds : the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia

Refugee lifeworlds : the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia / Y-Dang Troeung.

"Utilizing the concept of aphasia, this book demonstrates how Cambodian refugee narratives resist state violence and take head-on hegemonic discourses across popular and scholarly spaces that prop up colonial, imperial, capitalist, heteropatriarchal, and ableist formations of the Cold War in Ca...

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Main Author: Troeung, Y-Dang, 1980-2022 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2022.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
1970-1979
Refugees > Cambodia > Social conditions.
Refugees > Cambodia > Psychology.
People with disabilities > Cambodia > Social conditions.
People with disabilities > Cambodia > Psychology.
Genocide > Cambodia > Psychological aspects.
Political atrocities > Cambodia > Psychological aspects.
Genocide > Psychological aspects
People with disabilities > Psychology
People with disabilities > Social conditions
Political atrocities > Psychological aspects
Refugees > Psychology
Refugees > Social conditions
Cambodia > History > Civil War, 1970-1975.
Cambodia > History > 1975-1979.
Cambodia
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: A genealogy of the Cold War in Cambodia
  • Introduction: On war, disability, and refugee life
  • Cambodia's Cold War episteme
  • Debility and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia
  • Cripping the Kapok tree and the Cambodian genocide
  • Aphasia and the nervous condition of refugee asylum
  • Coda: Boneyards of the Cold War

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