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Living with Ghosts, Living Otherwise

Pedagogies of Haunting in Post-Genocide Cambodia

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(Re)Constructing Memory: Education, Identity, and Conflict

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From 1975 to 1979, Cambodia, under the leadership of Pol Pot and other leaders of the Democratic Kampuchea,1 was forcibly returned to an agrarian, Marxist-Leninist state in which education, money, religion, and class divisions were violently dismantled. During this period—which was preceded by civil war and tense, violent conflict with Vietnam and the United States—an estimated 2 million members of the Cambodian population perished.

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Goulding, C. (2017). Living with Ghosts, Living Otherwise. In: Bellino, M.J., Williams, J.H. (eds) (Re)Constructing Memory: Education, Identity, and Conflict. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-860-0_11

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