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Oct 3, 2017
Cambodia's Second Kingdom
Nation, Imagination, and Democracy
Summary
Billed as "an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system," Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2016) pays special attention to how competing nationalistic imaginings are a prominent part of contestation in the country's post-war reconstruction politics. These imaginings, the book's author Astrid Noren-Nilsson argues, constitute resources with which parties obtain popular support and win elections. In making her case, she draws on an impressive array of primary sources, including extensive interview data with members of Cambodia's political elite.
Duncan McCargo speaks with Astrid Noren-Nilsson for New Books in Southeast Asian Studies on the sidelines of the 2017 EuroSEAS conference at the University of Oxford, where Cambodia's Second Kingdom was shortlisted for the EuroSEAS social science book prize.
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Duncan McCargo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
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Duncan McCargo is an eclectic, internationalist political scientist, and literature buff: his day job is teaching Southeast Asian politics at NTU in Singapore.
