Cultural Renewal in Cambodia: Academic Activism in the Neoliberal Era

Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 The Politics of Knowledge in Cambodia
	Chapter 1 A Post-Colonial Nation
		1 French Rule (1863–1953)
			1.1 Colonial Orientalism and Its ‘Dissidents’
			1.2 ‘Angkorization’ of Cambodia
			1.3 Knowledge Modernization through Buddhism
			1.4 ‘Amateur’ Scholars
		2 Independent Cambodia (1953–1970)
			2.1 Birth of ‘Khmer Studies’
			2.2 The Royal University of Fine Arts (1965–1975)
	Chapter 2 Civil War, Genocide and CEDORECK
		1 The Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
			1.1 The Khmer-Môn Institute (1971–1975)
		2 The Khmer Rouge (1975–1979)
		3 Rebuilding from the Ashes
			3.1 In Cambodia: the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1993)
			3.2 Cultural Survival in Exile: the CEDORECK
	Chapter 3 Cambodia after UNTAC
		1 UNTAC and Its Legacies
		2 Education after UNTAC
		3 From ‘Media to Digital Democracy’?
		4 Non-Governmental Organizations
Part 2 The Making of a Hybrid Academic Institution
	Chapter 4 The Center for Khmer Studies
		1 Defining the Center’s Mission
		2 Building ‘From the Bottom-Up’
	Chapter 5 An Integrated Capacity-Building Program
		1 Programmatic Genesis
		2 The Junior Faculty Training Program (2004–2010)
			2.1 Organization of the Junior Faculty Training Program
			2.2 Contradictory Intellectual Debates
			2.3 Practicing Fieldwork (and Comparing Cambodia and Its Neighboring Countries)
			2.4 Translating, Publishing, Disseminating
			2.5 International Exposure
			2.7 Supporting a Community of Social Actors
	Chapter 6 A Citizen’s Institution
		1 Programmatic Genesis
			1.1 Inventorying the Collections of the National Museum of Cambodia
			1.2 Supporting the Buddhist Institute
			1.3 Digitizing Materials in the Khmer Language (with the National Library)
		2 Expanding Creative Knowledge: Working with Artists and Craftsmen
			2.1 Collaboration with the Asia Cultural Council
			2.2 Institute of Khmer Traditional Textile
			2.3 The Khmer Dance Project
		3 Community Engagement in Siem Reap
			3.1 Collaboration with the Buddhist Monastery Wat Damnak
			3.2 In the Shadow of a World Heritage Site (Angkor)
Part 3 Social Responsibilities: Scholars, Funders and Diplomats
	Chapter 7 Socially Engaged Scholars?
		1 Involving International Scholars
			1.1 Khmer Studies: a Fragmented Field
			1.2 Working with International Academic Institutions
			1.3 Universities’ Librarians and Supporting Staff
		2 Facilitating Special Educational Activities
			2.1 Facilitating Research Projects
		3 Relations with Individual Scholars
			3.1 Early Career Academics
			3.2 Established Academics
			3.3 Scholars from the Diaspora
			3.4 Socializing Scholars in the Neoliberal Age
	Chapter 8 Funders as ‘Stakeholders’?
		1 Individual Philanthropists
		2 Foundations
			2.1 CKS and Foundations
			2.2 Relation with the Rockefeller Foundation
	Chapter 9 Working with International Organizations and Cultural Diplomacies
		1 The World Bank
		2 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
		3 Working with Diplomats
			3.1 United States’ Cultural Diplomacy
			3.2 French Cultural Diplomacy
			3.3 Japanese Cultural Diplomacy
Conclusion
Appendix: Report on CKS’s Inaugural Workshop (2001)
Bibliography
Index