TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Violence, Democracy, and the Neoliberal “Order”: The Contestation of Public Space in Posttransitional Cambodia
JO  - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
A1  - Springer, Simon
SP  - 138
EP  - 162
VL  - 99
IS  - 1
N2  - Neoliberal policies explain why authoritarianism and violence remain the principal modes of governance among many ruling elites in posttransitional settings. Using Cambodia as an empirical case to illustrate the neoliberalizing process, the promotion of intense marketization is revealed as a foremost causal factor in a country's inability to consolidate democracy following political transition. Neoliberalization effectively acts to suffocate an indigenous burgeoning of democratic politics. Such asphyxiation is brought to bear under the neoliberal rhetoric of order and stability, which can be read through the (re)production of public space. The preoccupation with order and stability serves the interests of capital at the global level and political elites at the level of the nation-state. Citizens themselves may fiercely contest these particular interests in a quest for a more radical democracy, as evidenced by the burgeoning geographies of protest that have emerged in Cambodian public spaces in the posttransition era.<p /> 
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SN  - 0004-5608
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00045600802223333
ID  - ref1
ER  -