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Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (RoutledgeCurzon

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and completed his PhD on Satipaṭṭhāna at the University of Peradeniya in 2000

This strikingly original study of Cambodian nationalism brings to life eight turbulent decades of cultural change and sheds new light on the colonial ancestry of Pol Pot’s murderous dystopia

she draws our attention to contrasting models in the Euro-American tradition and invites us to reconsider how we think about the trajectory of a human life

Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle apple_store Cultural Crisis and Social Memory:For decades, Southeast Asias Golden Trianglewhere the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Burma intersecthas been infamous for its opium and heroin production. But then, in the 1990s, the drug gangs in the Golden Triangle began to produce methamphetamine, a synthetic drug that does not depend on any unreliable crop such as the opium poppy. In Thailand the drug has become known as yaba, madness drug or madness medicine. Unlike heroin, which is a downer,