Art and Postmemory in a Cambodian Village—The Making of a Local Memorial Site

A local memorial site in Cambodia emerged as a space where art facilitated transgenerational remembering of Khmer Rouge violence, blending international memory work with national narratives and local postmemories. Youth participants acted as artistic intermediaries, translating fragmented survivor narratives into visual forms, creating new memoryscapes that intertwine old and new memories. However, the national political framework of collective suffering constrained this process, preventing a nuanced exploration of blurred victim-perpetrator subjectivities in the village's past and present.

Emde, S. (2025). Art and Postmemory in a Cambodian Village—The Making of a Local Memorial Site. Anthropological Forum, 35(2), 123–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2025.2568620