The coloniality of abridgment: afterlives of mass violence in Cambodia and the US

Emily Mitamura

Third World Quarterly, 2019, vol. 40, issue 2, 389-404

Abstract: This article examines processes of knowledge production around mass violence in 1970s Cambodia including media reportage and coeval scholarly debate, developing a conceptualisation of colonial abridgment. It assesses operations by which Cambodia as a country is violently essentialised, the occurrence of mass violence taking on metonymic grandeur that works to deny imperial legacies, entomb modern Cambodia in a hermetically sealed past and thereby maintain global order within existing racial-colonial logics.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1568191

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