Choreographing Cambodia

Geopolitics, Nation & Identity in Contemporary Dance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Choreographing Cambodia is an open-access interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between geopolitics, embodiment, and post-conflict cultural aesthetics, engaged with through a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of contemporary dance in Cambodia. Popular imaginations of Cambodia still primarily associate the country with the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979), as war-torn and violent. However, young people under 30 who did not live through the Khmer Rouge now make up over 65% of Cambodia’s population and see their country as a modern, developed nation.This book examines the role of contemporary dance in forging these new imaginaries of Cambodia, and the entwined legacies of both war and peace on the creative desires of this young generation. It attends to the contestations and contradictions that result, and examines how contemporary dance navigates these tensions to produce an expanded socio-political field. The imaginaries and worlds that are expressed and enacted through dance are thus shown to intervene in, and be shaped by, geopolitical forces. As such, the book examines how contemporary dance offers new insights into the entanglement of geopolitics, choreography and identity, whilst also representing the first sustained analysis of contemporary dance in Cambodia.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350282155

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Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik
Övriga konstformer inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Amanda Rogers is an Associate Professor in Human Geography and the Geohumanities at Swansea University, UK. She is the author of Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, identity and the geographies of performance (2015). She has published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Contemporary Theatre Review, Cultural Geographies, Progress in Human Geography, and The Journal of Intercultural Studies. She previously held ESRC and British Academy postdoctoral fellowships and a British Academy-ASEASUK-ECAF fellowship. She is currently the research secretary of the Association of South East Asian Studies U.K.

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Choreographing Cambodia marks a key advancement in the study of creative geopolitics, focusing on the complex interplay of artistic and aesthetic factors. By shining the spotlight on Cambodia’s dancers, Rogers’ scholarship masterfully illuminates the diverse gendered and sexed landscape shaped by contemporary dance and extends our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between national identity, tradition, and globalization. A must-read for anyone concerned with contemporary geopolitics.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Choreographing Cambodia Chapter 1: Discussing Contemporary Dance in CambodiaChapter 2: Contemporary Dance Training, Livelihoods and Audiences in CambodiaChapter 3: The Dance of Everyday Life Chapter 4: Queering Through Strength Chapter 5: Disability and Choreopolitics Chapter 6: Indigeneity and Relational OntologiesChapter 7: Securing the NationConclusion: Choreographic In/stability