GEOG20012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: List Of Buddhist Festivals, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Norodom Sihanouk
28 Jul 2018
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The politics of nation building in cambodia: genocide sites in post-1979. The khmer rouge regime, including partial film screening of s-21: the khmer rouge killing. [a] modern society"s memory is shaped by such public sites as the museum - (huyssen. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for the access to laboratories where photographs are retouched [] and biographies and histories rewritten - (kundera 1980) Museums, memorials and other curated sights are really important attempts to regain some form of collectively held meaning. Meaning that is often lost in period of violence and conflict. These public cultural sights recites a shared meaning - however as public institutions that are set up by political powers of the day, museums can"t help but give a partial account.
