Trans-Asian Graduate Student Conference Keynote Speaker, sponsored by CSEAS, UW-Madison

Post-colonial, doubly post-socialist, and post-conflict, by any account, Cambodia’s recent past has been punctuated by a series of dramatic social, economic, and political ruptures. Yet, there are also remarkable continuities. For one, the same party has held power for nearly four decades, through three changes in name and political ideology and across two foreign interventions. In light of these tensions, this talk explores the dissonance between rupture as a periodizing norm and rupture as liv