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Violent Neoliberalism TTThhhiiisss pppaaagggeee iiinnnttteeennntttiiiooonnnaaallllllyyy llleeefffttt bbblllaaannnkkk Violent Neoliberalism Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia Simon Springer VIOLENT NEOLIBERALISM Copyright © Simon Springer, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-48532-8 All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-50363-6 ISBN 978-1-137-48533-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137485335 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Springer, Simon. Violent neoliberalism : development, discourse and dispossession in Cambodia / Simon Springer. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Neoliberalism—Cambodia. 2. Democracy—Cambodia. 3. Political violence—Cambodia. 4. Economic development—Cambodia. 5. Social conflict—Cambodia. 6. Cambodia—Politics and government. 7. Cambodia—Social conditions. 8. Cambodia—Economic conditions. I. Title. JC574.2.C16.S67 2015 320.9596—dc23 2014036742 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: March 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Special Permissions Permissions were kindly granted for the following: Chapter two, revised here, was previously published as Springer, S. 2011. Articulated neoliberal- ism: the specificity of patronage, kleptocracy, and violence in Cambodia’s neoliberalization. Environment and Planning A 43(11): 2554–2570, cour- tesy of Pion Ltd., London, www.pion.co.uk and www.envplan.com. Chapter three previously appeared in a slightly different form as Springer, S. 2009. Culture of violence or violent Orientalism? Neoliberalisation and imagining the “savage other” in post-transitional Cambodia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34(3): 305–319, courtesy of Wiley- Blackwell Publishers. Chapter four presents a revised version of the previ- ously published Springer, S. 2010. Neoliberal discursive formations: on the contours of subjectivation, good governance, and symbolic violence in posttransitional Cambodia. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(5): 931–950, courtesy of Pion Ltd., London, www.pion.co.uk and www.envplan.com. A revised version of Springer, S. 2013. Violent accumulation: a postanarchist critique of property, dispossession, and the state of exception in neoliberalizing Cambodia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(3): 608–626, courtesy of Taylor and Francis Group, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00045608.2011.62 8259 appears here as chapter five. An earlier version of chapter six appeared previously as Springer, S. 2013. Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia. Journal of Agrarian Change 13(4): 520–546, courtesy of Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. The introduc- tion and conclusion also reproduce parts of the previously published Springer, S. 2012. Neoliberalising violence: of the exceptional and the exemplary in coalescing moments. Area 44(2): 136–143. Finally, Ayako Kagawa, Geographic Information Officer in the Cartographic Section at the United Nations, kindly granted permission to reproduce the following map: Cambodia, no.3860 Rev. January 4, 2004. TTThhhiiisss pppaaagggeee iiinnnttteeennntttiiiooonnnaaallllllyyy llleeefffttt bbblllaaannnkkk For my Dad, You taught me that the embers of contemplation burn longer than the inferno of rage. TTThhhiiisss pppaaagggeee iiinnnttteeennntttiiiooonnnaaallllllyyy llleeefffttt bbblllaaannnkkk Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction—Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: There’s Something Rotten in the State of Cambodia 1 Part I Development One Violent Politics: Authority, Terror, and the New Devaraja 23 Two Violent Kleptocracy: The Articulations of Neoliberalism and Patronage 41 Part II Discourse Three Violent Orientalism: Imagining the “Savage Other” 61 Four Violent Symbolism: Good Governance and the Making of Neoliberal Subjects 81 Part III Dispossession Five Violent Accumulation: The Trilateral of Logics and the Creation of Property 107 Six Violent Evictions: Oral Possession and Legal Transgression 135 Conclusion—Memento Mori: The Mortality of Neoliberalism 167 Notes 177 Bibliography 181 Index 209
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