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Khmerness and the Thai ‘Other’: Violence, Discourse and Symbolism in the 2003 Anti-Thai Riots in Cambodia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2006

Alexander Hinton
Alexander Hinton
Affiliation:
At Rutgers (State University of New Jersey), Newark, New Jersey. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

On 29 January 2003, a Cambodian mob burned down the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh. This article explores the roots of this violence, arguing that the anti-Thai riots were linked in part to a set of discourses and imagery that have long been central to assertions of ‘Khmerness’ and constructions of the ‘Other’.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , October 2006 , pp. 445 - 468
Copyright
2006 The National University of Singapore

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