Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-219) and index.

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Starting Points Cambodia as an Unfinished Imagined Community Setting and Context Politicized Identities and the Post-PPA Nation Legitimacy-building Cambodian Nationalism in Perspective Historical Givens The Building Blocks of Cambodian Political Discourse Outline of the Book Notes on Sources Note on Translation and Transcription ch. Two Of Hun Sen: The Sdech Kan Narrative The "Original" Narrative Changing Ideas of Kingship Performing Sdech Kan Re) birth of a Modern Saga Establishing Origins The Retrieval of Democracy National Reconciliation Statuemania Film, Overlap, and Invulnerability Modeling Just Leadership ch. Three Royalists: Between Embodiment and Doctrine Unity in Diversity? Embodied Politics: Constitutional Monarchy and Political Royalism Royalist Democracy Doctrine vs. Embodiment From Political Royalism to Royal Irrelevancy Contents note continued: ch. Four Democrats: Democracy and the Post-PPA Nation The CPP's "People's Democracy" Democratic Opposition Starting Points Identifying the People's Will The Limits of Electoral Democracy Determining a Political Identity Nation, Religion, King: Transforming Post-resistance Identities Democracy as a Core of Cambodian Political Discourse ch. Five Reassessing Political Contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia Legitimacy, Discourses of Democracy, and Cambodia's Democratization Continuity and Change Ideology, Identities, and Representation of the Nation Public Appeal Implications in Southeast Asian Perspective.

Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system. Competing nationalistic imaginings are shown to be a more prominent part of party political contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia than typically believed. For political parties, nationalistic imaginings became the basis for strategies to attract popular support, electoral victories, and moral legitimacy. Astrid Norén-Nilsson uses uncommon sources, such as interviews with key contemporary political actors, to analyze Cambodia?s postconflict reconstruction politics. This book exposes how nationalist imaginings, typically understood to be associated with political opposition, have been central to the reworking of political identities and legitimacy bids across the political spectrum. Norén-Nilsson examines the entanglement of notions of democracy and national identity and traces out a tension between domestic elite imaginings and the liberal democratic framework in which they operate.

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