Life after Collective Death in South East Asia: Part 1 – The (Re-)Fabrication of Social Bonds

Guillou, Anne Yvonne; Vignato, Silvia

doi:10.5367/sear.2012.0106

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“…These bodies litter the land with spirits who had met with 'bad deaths'. Khmer Rouge soldiers haunt people in their dreams (Guillou 2012), and people consider forested lands dangerous because of the ghosts of Vietnam War soldiers (Uk 2016;Arensen 2012). The question of what to do with these unclaimed bodies has met with differing ideas about how to commemorate the genocide.…”

Section: Negative Space As Methodsmentioning

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Negative Space: Imaginaries of Violence in Cambodia

DeAngelo¹

2019

Southeast of Now

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This paper discusses negative space as a methodology as pertaining to imaginaries of violence in Cambodia. Negative space references the use of images in the recounting of stories of this violence; however, due to the scarcity of photographic records from the era before the fall of the Khmer Rouge, these archives exist on the skins of former soldiers. This paper traces how a set of yantra tattoos provokes expressions of violence from the past and, potentially, in the future. The paper contextualizes these tattoos with histories of violence, an analytic philosophy of images and Buddhist memorialization of death. The tattoos render the human body as 'negative space', allowing for what seems to be secretive to be revealed as representations that capture uncertainties in imaginaries of violence. Non-Existent Photographs, Finding Cambodia "This is a photo that didn't exist," my Cambodian-American friend Chavi said as she thrust her phone at me, showing me a picture of a couple in a doorway. It was her father and her mother. Her mother was pale and sported a shiny black beehive haircut and a sleeveless brocade dress. "Look at her," my roommate said, "already pissed." Her father, beside his unsmiling new wife, stared out and over as if at a crowd, grinning through his chiselled cheekbones.

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Section: Negative Space As Methodsmentioning

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Negative Space: Imaginaries of Violence in Cambodia

DeAngelo¹

2019

Southeast of Now

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Dealing with bad death in post‐conflict societies: forensic devices, burials of exhumed remains, and mourning processes in Peru^*

Robin‐Azevedo¹

2023

Anthropology of Violent Death

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Trauma and Its Aftermath: Local Configurations of Reconciliation in Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Zucker¹

2013

J of Asian Stud

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“I wish for you two boys and two girls,” the elderly man pronounced. He was addressing both myself and my fiancé as he reached out to shake our hands as we were leaving his traditional wooden house. He had told us earlier that he spends his days in this late chapter of his life enjoying his grandchildren and tending his vegetable plot. Now at the door ready to leave I hesitated, not wanting to extend my hand, but then I did so anyway. This grandfather was Nuon Chea, “Brother Number Two” of Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge regime, officially known as Democratic Kampuchea (1975–79). The year was 2002. My fiancé, a cameraman, was working with reporter and author Tom Fawthrop on a documentary about former Khmer Rouge leaders' evasion of justice and I had been invited to come along.

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Life after Collective Death in South East Asia: Part 1 – The (Re-)Fabrication of Social Bonds

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Negative Space: Imaginaries of Violence in Cambodia

Negative Space: Imaginaries of Violence in Cambodia

Dealing with bad death in post‐conflict societies: forensic devices, burials of exhumed remains, and mourning processes in Peru^*

Trauma and Its Aftermath: Local Configurations of Reconciliation in Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

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Life after Collective Death in South East Asia: Part 1 – The (Re-)Fabrication of Social Bonds

Cited by 4 publications

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Negative Space: Imaginaries of Violence in Cambodia

Negative Space: Imaginaries of Violence in Cambodia

Dealing with bad death in post‐conflict societies: forensic devices, burials of exhumed remains, and mourning processes in Peru*

Trauma and Its Aftermath: Local Configurations of Reconciliation in Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

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Dealing with bad death in post‐conflict societies: forensic devices, burials of exhumed remains, and mourning processes in Peru^*