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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, by Y-Dang Troeung Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia. By Y-Dang Troeung. (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2022. 262 pp.) Geoffrey Gunn Geoffrey Gunn Emeritus, Nagasaki University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (2): 323–324. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.323 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Geoffrey Gunn; Review: Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, by Y-Dang Troeung. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2023; 92 (2): 323–324. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.323 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search A short book divided into four chapters, each suggests a psychological condition stemming from war (the Cambodian war), refugee displacement, and memory (or amnesia). In a substantive standalone preface, author Y-Dang Troeung positions her work between transnational literatures, critical refugee studies, global south studies, and “critical disability studies.” Neither does she ignore trauma-based paradigms as with post-memory, haunting, and intergenerational trauma (p. 11). Matching the subtitle of the work, as stated, the text “aims to construct and animate a genealogy of the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia in the service of decolonist, antiwar, and abolitionist futures” (p. xi). In doing so, Troeung reframes questions of international complicity and responsibility in the Cambodia genocide in ways that implicate us all. Such is the power of this book including a final “coda,” that no one reading it could doubt her general sentiments for a moment. Born in a refugee camp... You do not currently have access to this content.
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