2012-2013 - Center for Khmer Studies

their original settings. The work will also incorporate interviews
with prominent scholars in the field. Vann, a specialist
in French colonialism in Southeast Asia, will write
the narrative, provide expert commentary, and conduct
interviews with scholars and Dym, a scholar of Asian cinema
and writer, director, and producer of a short film on
Japanese wartime propaganda, will direct, film, and edit
the project. They will spend three weeks shooting on location
in Phnom Penh and other sites in Cambodia. The final
product will be available for use in Cambodian, American,
and French classrooms via DVD and online distribution.
Adele Esposito is going to conduct post­doctoral
research in the framework of INALCO and CKS fellowship
program. Her project, entitled Harmony or Competition?
How the projects of the international cooperation relate to heritage
in Siem Reap­Angkor region questions the theoretical
coherence and the operational synergy of the projects promoted
by bilateral or multilateral cooperation agreements.
She will focus on those projects which deal with inherited
built space because they are framed by an ambivalent strategy
which challenges their harmonisation in a unitary
vision: these spaces must be safeguarded while they must
be involved in socioeconomic development; the representations
of the past and the aspirations for the future influence
the design of these projects which are often tourismoriented.
Dr. Esposito will conduct fieldwork on a selection
of case studies concerning three types of inherited
space: the Angkor park, the villages located in Siem Reap
province and Siem Reap town. First, she will analyse the
models, the operational modes and the analytical framework
which shape the projects. Secondly, she will examine
the articulation of projects in shared or intracting spaces.
Thirdly, she will evaluate the attempts’ of giving coherence
to them by overarching policies and strategies.
Sokha on the Jar Ledge, Phnom Pel
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