...Cathy J. Schlund-Vials This essay examines the impact of transnational historical amnesias on Cambodian American genocidal remembrance. Arguing that the “Cambodian syndrome” revises the “Vietnam syndrome” in a manner that legitimizes contemporary US and Cambodian governmental power, this essay...

...Khatharya Um As a meditation on our longing for relationality across time and rupture, “Exiled Memory” examines the relationship between history, memory, and identity in the Southeast Asian diaspora. It situates the politics and art of remembering against the ravages of genocide and displacement...

...登 composed a vernacular novel Sanbao taijian xiyangji tongsu yanyi 三寶太監西洋記通俗演義 ( Vernacular Romance of Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyages on the Indian Ocean ) (1598). This article examines how the imminent maritime realities reminded the late Ming authors of one cross-border war and two genocides in Java...

... by the rules . . . the Chinese government [must] bring their full influence to bear in Darfur.”17 Darfur activist Eric Reeves pushed the link a step further, tying Darfur to the Olympics to genocide: “China’s slogan for these Olympic Games — “One...

... the situation of comfort women with the Bosnian women in rape camps, Yang invokes the extremely undertheorized notion of the genocidal rape of a Guest Editor’s Introduction IX nation between enemies, which...

... of my Berke- ley, California, apartment a photograph of Pol Pot’s corpse on television. positions 16:1  Spring 2008 112 Apparently the man responsible for the genocide of 1.7 million Cambodi...

... of the comfort women admits no possibility of intervention. As a result, the viewpoint of the colonizer will continue to prevail in the history of the colonized. Which Truth, Whose Truth? A Case of Genocidal Rape During the period 1931-1945...

... Patterson, in the organization’s 1951 antilynching, positions 23:4  November 2015 602 human rights petition to the United Nations, We Charge Genocide, argued that the collateralization of nonwhite life evident...

... for that country, as is the more recent genocide in Rwanda, both of which have been the subject of award-winning films. Why the seeming discrepancy between these cases and the Indonesian Great Killings of 1965? Of course media coverage has...

..., Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work (University of Minnesota Press, Va- Megn Thoj is a lmmaker and community activist in St. Paul, Minnesota. He trained in lm and literary criticism at Indiana University, in lm...

..., the cancellation of elections in Algeria in the early 1990s in the name of democracy and feminism, which led to civil war, or the genocidal logic employed by states to make claims on “abducted” women and their children at the moment of the Partition...

... of United States empire and its pursuit elsewhere, as well as those Cold War antagonisms that informed regional con icts and produced dire consequences (genocide, for some), now inspire our inquiries about the resulting traf c in images and agendas...

... of the gravest genocides of the twentieth century against its own people, these deportees lack the language skills and cultural knowledge to create new lives for themselves in their foreign “homelands.” positions 20:3 Summer 2012...

... with historical violence such as war and genocide. Such post-anthropocentric memories are a product of imaginative investment, projection, and creation that occur in the cross-generational transference of traumatic experiences. They are profoundly local and personal, and constitute an “archive of feelings...

...- ing,” indeed female genocide, is our specialty.7 Statistics in India are by no means the prerogative of the dreary worlds John ❘ Sexing the Fetus 11 of governmentality or development. During the late...

... must not forget that Hitler came to power within a democratic system. Particularly noteworthy is an event of July 12, 2003: immediately on taking office, Belgium’s new government announced that it had already abolished the so-called genocide law...

... also stumbled into a more sobering pavilion, the North Korea Genocide Exhibit.”1 Inside the tent, Kang Chol Hwan, a North Korean defector who had been “recently summoned to meet Presi- dent Bush” in Washington, DC, signed copies of his memoir...

... against human- ity and as genocide, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda have prosecuted forced pregnancy as a crime against humanity...

... led a peace walk from Thailand to Cambodia right after the Khmer Rouge genocide in “The Buddha called the practice of mindfulness ‘the only way.’ Always in the present. At this very moment. From moment to moment. In all activity...

..., ed. Eliezer B. Ayal, Southeast Asia Series no. 54 (Athens: Ohio University Center for Inter- national Studies, 1978), 198–99. 16. Judy Ledgerwood, “The Cambodian Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: National Narrative...