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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology
Episode: Philippe Peycam, "Cultural Renewal in Cambodia: Academic Activism in the Neoliberal Era" (Brill and ISEAS, 2020)
Description: How far did post-UNTAC Cambodia exemplified an expanded Habermasian public sphere? What happened when a range of aid agencies, private donors, activists and academics showed up with all sorts of competing agendas for educational and cultural projects? In conversation with Duncan McCargo, former Center for Khmer Studies director Philippe Peycam discusses his book reflecting on Cambodia's first decade following the new millennium, and explains (inter alia) why he has so much admiration for librarians and publishers.  Cultural Renewal in Cambodia: Academic Activism in the Neoliberal Era (Brill and ISEAS, 2020) narrates the establishment of a cultural project in post...