Violence, Democracy, and the Neoliberal “Order”: The Contestation of Public Space in Posttransitional Cambodia

Springer, Simon

doi:10.1080/00045600802223333

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“…Expressing democracy requires public space but urban neoliberalism seems incompatible with democracy as an inclusive and participatory political process. As Springer (2009) states, ''democracy as public space is a vision that neoliberalism is unwilling and indeed incapable of accommodating'' (Springer 2009 p. 142). For a strand of neo-Marxist geographers drawing on Lefebvre's ideas on the ''Right to the city'', the demise of public spaces calls for investigations of the implications that such policies have for the construction of democratic processes and urban citizenship (McCann 2002;Mitchell 2003;Staeheli and Dowler 2002;Staeheli and Mitchell 2007).…”

Section: The Neoliberalization Of Urban Public Spacementioning

confidence: 98%

Disruption, yet community reconstitution: subverting the privatization of Latin American plazas

Crossa

2009

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Section: The Neoliberalization Of Urban Public Spacementioning

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Disruption, yet community reconstitution: subverting the privatization of Latin American plazas

Crossa

2009

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“…Recent years have witnessed an upswing in the geographic writingdand theorizingdof violence (Loyd, 2009(Loyd, , 2012Springer, 2008Springer, , 2009Springer, , 2011Springer, , 2012Tyner, 2009Tyner, , 2012aTyner, , 2014aTyner & Inwood, 2014). This work has, specifically, sought to deepen our understanding of violence; to critically question not simply the consequences or remembrances of violence, but also the 'act' or 'event' of violence.…”

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To live and let die: Food, famine, and administrative violence in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975–1979

Tyner

Rice

2015

Political Geography

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a b s t r a c t Between 1975 and 1979 approximately two million people died in the Cambodian genocide. We argue that the mass violence that transpired during this period was a manifestation of the Khmer Rouge's attempt to make life. Through a focus on the production of both violence and vulnerability we direct attention to the contradictory policies and practices forwarded by the Khmer Rouge that were designed to maximize life through the maximization of death. Specifically, we consider the mass starvation that accompanied the genocide as a structure of violence; we forward the argument that the rationing of food constitutes a calculated yet contradictory policy, namely that food rations represent in material form an inner contradiction of fostering life and disallowing life. Subsequently, the policy of forced rationsdwhich imposed a particular space of vulnerability on Cambodia's populationdresulted in massive loss of life through starvation and disease that were not the unintended side-effects of poor research, poor planning, or poor implementation on behalf of the Khmer Rouge, but rather were the necessary consequences of a proto-capitalist form of state-building.

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“…As Cambodia's government has shifted economic policy to encourage open markets in a bid to improve its competitive edge in a global capitalist economy, the privatization of resources has become part of the country's agenda (Springer 2009). Simultaneously, local fishers in rural villages in Cambodia have seen a rapid decline in fisheries stocks in the past several years (Sneddon 2007).…”

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“…Through disproportionate participation in industries such as nature tourism and through enclosures of communal spaces for private extraction for profit, power relations are created and/or reinforced (Brockington and Duffy 2011;Büscher and Arsel 2012;Cater 2006). For example, in postconflict Cambodia, the enclosure of natural resources for exploitation played a crucial role in the rise in power of the Cambodian People's Party "and those tied to the regime through familial, patrimonial or business relationships (Global Witness 2009)" (cited in Milne and Mahanty 2015:9) at the expense of those who locally rely on those resources (Springer 2009). …”

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Uneven Development and Shifting Socioecological Rifts: Some Unintended Consequences of Dolphin Conservation in Cambodia

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2018

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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As sites of global environmental degradation continue to emerge and pose significant threats to life on the planet, the world’s natural resource managers persist in attempts to mitigate and reverse this degradation. However, these mitigation attempts often employ capitalist mechanisms as solutions to problems caused by capitalism. I used one-on-one in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation to examine the socioenvironmental changes associated with an Irrawaddy dolphin conservation project in Cambodia from the perspectives and experiences of the people most affected by the project. I argue that the inability of capitalist mechanisms to address the interconnectedness of “social” and “environmental” problems resulting from capitalism, in this case, appear to have served to exacerbate social inequality and to shift the project’s targeted ecological rift from the rivers to the forests. I also introduce the term “Whack-A-Mole” conservation to refer to this tendency of neoliberal conservation to simply shift socioecological rifts.

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Violence, Democracy, and the Neoliberal “Order”: The Contestation of Public Space in Posttransitional Cambodia

Cited by 76 publications

References 75 publications

Disruption, yet community reconstitution: subverting the privatization of Latin American plazas

Disruption, yet community reconstitution: subverting the privatization of Latin American plazas

To live and let die: Food, famine, and administrative violence in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975–1979

Uneven Development and Shifting Socioecological Rifts: Some Unintended Consequences of Dolphin Conservation in Cambodia

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