An Oral History of Cham Muslim Women in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ohiou12760097912021-08-03T05:46:45Z An Oral History of Cham Muslim Women in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime So, Farina History Womens Studies Oral History Cham Muslim Women Khmer Rouge/Democratic Kampuchea Communism Genocide Memory Narrative This thesis examines Cham Muslim women’s experiences and narratives under the Democratic Kampuchea regime, better known as the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979), from a gendered perspective. This perspective is grounded in the belief that Muslim women underwent different experiences from men due to the special suffering they endured as women on account of their gender roles and ethnic and religious backgrounds. The focus of the thesis is two-fold: to study the nature of women’s narratives and interpretations and to examine the thematic empirical facts. While the former examines the way women narrate their stories and act to remember the past, the latter focuses on the DK treatment of women and women’s responses to the DK policies. Both of these parts are interwoven within each thematic discussion – evacuation, family and motherhood, and religion and identity. My argument is that analyzing the memories and narratives of Cham Muslim women leads to a better comprehension of the DK systematic policies on Cham Muslims, which caused separation, loss, and painful experience. Women suffered from this unprecedented change due to the KR’s attempts to transform the country into a socialist agrarian society, in which collectivization was the domain of this newly formed communist state. However, women responded to the KR policies and everyday violence by embarking on both “compliance” and “resistance” strategies. Women’s narratives reveal that the responses they made were not only for the sake of survival, but also to preserve the concepts of Cham traditional family, motherhood, and Islamic religion and identity. This study is based on forty in-depth interviews with Cham Muslim women from 2004 through 2009. An oral history editing method and ethnographic coding were used to analyze interview transcripts, field notes, and documents. This combined approach seeks to enrich historical scholarship with human experiences. 2010-08-05 English text Ohio University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1276009791 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1276009791 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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History Womens Studies Oral History Cham Muslim Women Khmer Rouge/Democratic Kampuchea Communism Genocide Memory Narrative So, Farina An Oral History of Cham Muslim Women in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime |
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An Oral History of Cham Muslim Women in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime |
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An Oral History of Cham Muslim Women in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime |
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An Oral History of Cham Muslim Women in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime |
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An Oral History of Cham Muslim Women in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime |
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An Oral History of Cham Muslim Women in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime |
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oral history of cham muslim women in cambodia under the khmer rouge (kr) regime |
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