From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora Felicity Aulino Refiguring Women challenges the reigning

Refiguring Women challenges the reigning nationalist and anticolonial historical narratives of a conceptually and institutionally monolithic colonial modernity that made inevitable the rise of ethnonationalism and xenophobia in Burma

A significant new contribution to debates about economic

author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand

the book goes on to furnish insights into the distinctive nature of Cambodia's important yet over looked manifestation of Theravada Buddhist tradition and shows how it reestablished itself following almost total annihilation during the Pol Pot period

From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora Felicity Aulino Refiguring Women challenges the reigningIn a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regimes collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one fourth of the countrys population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one