Propaganda, Politics and Violence in Cambodia PDF Download

Author: Steve Heder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315285878
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Describes and analyses the propaganda and violence of the four Cambodian parties to the 1991 Paris peace agreements. This volume explores Cambodia during the UNTAC period and sets the events within the larger context of Khmer politics, history and culture.

Author: Sopheak Hoeun
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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This thesis project explores the relationship between Cambodian political identity and media diet for political information. More specifically, this research examines if and how individuals' motivation to seek political information from different media platforms may have an impact on their political knowledge, efficacy, and participation. A great amount of research has focused on various political communication effects that result from both traditional and online media in stable, democratic countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia; however, media effects research about emerging democracies, such as Cambodia, is rather limited. The existing literature of media effects presupposes that all political parties have equal access to all kinds of media, in that such access is guaranteed by law (e.g. the U.S.'s Communications Act, 1934). In an emerging democracy, such as Cambodia, access to media--especially the traditional forms--is vaguely defined by law, and in practice access is highly skewed to favor the ruling party. Cambodia has encountered great political fluctuations--including a coup d'état, a genocide, and years of civil war-- within the second half of the 20th century and has finally become a liberal multi-party democratic country after the Paris Peace Accord in 1991 (Chandler, 2000; United Nations, 2015). Although the path to democracy has been a long rocky ride, Cambodia has seized the opportunity to exercise the democratic process by holding national and sub-national elections regularly every five years (The National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia, 2014). The media is one of the essential components in a democracy because it could enhance or hinder the process. Ideally, the media serve as a watchdog for the public in a stable democracy, but it could also function as a propaganda mouthpiece for an authoritative democratic government. The major media outlets across all traditional platforms (television, radio, and print) in Cambodia are owned either by the government officials or politically affiliated individuals (i.e. the Prime Minister's daughter). All these outlets together are presumed to reach over 80% of the Cambodian population, according to an initiative conducted by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media and Reporters Without Borders (2015). This means that while Cambodians' main sources of information, including television, radio, and newspapers, (Freedom House, 2015) are somewhat diverse, the diversity of sources is still limited to only pro-government news (Men, 2014; Strangio, 2017). Fortunately, the advent of the Internet and social media could result in alternative avenues through which Cambodians--especially the young tech-savvy group and the majority makeup of the country's population--can partake in the political process. Without the government's control of the content that appears on the screens of computers and smartphones, Internet users in Cambodia could have more access to competitive political information and information on pressing social issues. With this alternative way to acquire diverse political information, Cambodians could be well equipped to evaluate political candidates and make informed decisions when casting their ballots, in addition to exercising their basic rights, such as the right to assemble, the right to voice their opinion, and the right to information. All of these rights are essential for a country to move towards a healthy democracy. To assess the role of online media in an emerging democracy, this survey-based study compared two different samples; one sample has access to the Internet and the other does not readily have Internet access. Two hundred fifty-seven Cambodians participated in the study through a purposive snowball sampling technique. The findings from this study show that partisanship is significantly associated with the media platforms that people use to acquire their political information. Furthermore, the results suggest that the media have a unique mediated effect on political attitudes both directly and depending on Internet access. Lastly, statistically significant differences in media diet and political attitudes between traditional and online media users were also observed. These findings suggest that in an emerging democracy, in this case Cambodia, the Internet is an effective and efficient platform to provide political information to the public, so that they can become well equipped and fully informed citizens in regards to their (real) country's affairs beyond the government's propaganda.

Author: Katherine Brickell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131756782X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the country, The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia provides a broad coverage of social, cultural, political and economic development within both rural and urban contexts during the last decade. A detailed introduction places Cambodia within its global and regional frame, and the handbook is then divided into five thematic sections: Political and Economic Tensions Rural Developments Urban Conflicts Social Processes Cultural Currents The first section looks at the major political implications and tensions that have occurred in Cambodia, as well as the changing parameters of its economic profile. The handbook then highlights the major developments that are unfolding within the rural sphere, before moving on to consider how cities in Cambodia, and particularly Phnom Penh, have become primary sites of change. The fourth section covers the major processes that have shaped social understandings of the country, and how Cambodians have come to understand themselves in relation to each other and the outside world. Section five analyses the cultural dimensions of Cambodia’s current experience, and how identity comes into contact with and responds to other cultural themes. Bringing together a team of leading scholars on Cambodia, the handbook presents an understanding of how sociocultural and political economic processes in the country have evolved. It is a cutting edge and interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as policymakers, sociologists and political scientists with an interest in contemporary Cambodia.

Author: Christopher R. Duncan
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971694180
Category : Assimilation (Sociology)
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Discusses the programs, policies, and laws that affect ethnic minorities in eight countries: Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Once targeted for intervention, people such as the Orang Asli of Malaysia and the "hill tribes" of Thailand often become the subject of programs aimed at radically changing their lifestyles, which the government views as backward or primitive. Several chapters highlight the tragic consequences of forced resettlement, a common result of these programs.

Author: Patricia Marchak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773578021
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Patricia Marchak argues that unless would-be interveners have an understanding of local issues, agents who speak local languages, and a military force fully prepared to undertake both peaceful and military missions on short notice, UN and other attempts to intervene are unlikely to succeed. While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions during bitter internal wars, Marchak argues that they may not be the best means of bringing truth and reconciliation to survivors. Based on the principle of individual responsibility, they are not designed to deal with collective crimes against humanity and genocide, nor are they good instruments for dealing with the breakdown of societies. Bringing together her own field interviews, documentary material, and secondary sources, Marchak critically assesses the recent history of international interventions and criminal prosecutions. She examines three cases in detail: Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia in its current forms of Bosnia and Serbia, considers their international context prior to and during internal wars, and argues that each case has to be understood in its own context and history - there is no common pattern and no easy fix that could mend broken societies after the wars. No Easy Fix is of interest to anyone concerned with how the international community deals with civil wars that involve serious crimes against humanity.

Author: Caroline Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135786534
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Cambodia underwent a triple transition in the 1990s: from war to peace, from communism to electoral democracy, and from command economy to free market. This book addresses the political economy of these transitions, examining how the much publicised international intervention to bring peace and democracy to Cambodia was subverted by the poverty of the Cambodian economy and by the state's manipulation of the move to the free market. This analysis of the material basis of obstacles to Cambodia's democratisation suggests that the long-established theoretical link between economy and democracy stands, even in the face of new strategies of international democracy promotion.

Author: Kevin N. Flatt
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773588574
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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At a time when Canadians were arguing about the merits of a new flag, the birth-control pill, and the growing hippie counterculture, the leaders of Canada's largest Protestant church were occupied with turning much of English-Canadian religious culture on its head. In After Evangelicalism, Kevin Flatt reveals how the United Church of Canada abruptly reinvented its public image by cutting the remaining ties to its evangelical past. Flatt argues that although United Church leaders had already abandoned evangelical beliefs three decades earlier, it was only in the 1960s that rapid cultural shifts prompted the sudden dismantling of the church's evangelical programs and identity. Delving deep into the United Church's archives, Flatt uncovers behind-the-scenes developments that led to revolutionary and controversial changes in the church's evangelistic campaigns, educational programs, moral stances, and theological image. Not only did these changes evict evangelicalism from the United Church, but they helped trigger the denomination's ongoing numerical decline and decisively changed Canada's religious landscape. Challenging readers to see the Canadian religious crisis of the 1960s as involving more than just Quebec's Quiet Revolution, After Evangelicalism unveils the transformation of one of Canada's most prominent social institutions.

Author: Douglas Irvin-Erickson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137568518
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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This volume explores how religious leaders can contribute to cultures of peace around the world. The essays are written by leading and emerging scholars and practitioners who have lived, taught, or worked in the areas of conflict about which they write. Connecting the theory and practice of religious peacebuilding to illuminate key challenges facing interreligious dialogue and interreligious peace work, the volume is explicitly interreligious, intercultural, and global in perspective. The chapters approach religion and peace from the vantage point of security studies, sociology, ethics, ecology, theology, and philosophy. A foreword by David Smock, the Vice President of Governance, Law and Society and Director of the Religion and Peacebuilding Center at the United States Institute of Peace, outlines the current state of the field.

Author: Colin Mackerras
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134515170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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A comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at core issues such as ethnic minorities and groups, population, language, culture and traditional religion.

Author: Christian Lund
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119384737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Rule and Rupture - State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. Combines the latest theory on property rights and citizenship with extensive fieldwork to provide a more complex, nuanced assessment of political states commonly viewed as “weak,” “fragile,” and “failed” Contains ten case studies taken from post-colonial settings around the world, including Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, and Bolivia Characterizes the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmented Brings together exciting insights from a global group of scholars in the fields of political science, development studies, and geography