Siam mismapped: Revisiting the territorial dispute over the Preah Vihear temple

Sang Kook Lee

doi:10.5367/sear.2014.0196

Siam mismapped: Revisiting the territorial dispute over the Preah Vihear temple

Sang Kook Lee

Department of Anthropology

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This paper examines the territorial dispute over the Preah Vihear temple on the Thai-Cambodian border. It sheds new light on discussions of the geo-body and nationalism by engaging with cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard's notions of the simulacrum and hyperreality in association with maps. The dispute over the temple of Preah Vihear has centred on one particular map, known as the Annex 1 map, which locates the temple in Cambodian territory. The map has not remained an inanimate object, but has instead become a 'living thing' and attained something of a 'soul'. As a result, any sense of mismapping which results in the loss of territory is no other than the equivalent of a loss of the biological body, as a result of which real conflict ensues. This paper reveals the historical process of how the Annex 1 map has become a simulacrum in Baudrillard's sense of the term, to the extent that it creates an instance of hyperreality to which people are emotionally attached.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-55
Number of pages	17
Journal	South East Asia Research
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5367/sear.2014.0196
Publication status	Published - 2014 Mar

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?This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation major international ?regional ? joint research project ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? to WJ ? Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation ? ? ?CG ? ?? ? Shanghai ?ising ?Star ?rogram ? ? ?QA ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Hong Kong Scholars ?rogram ?XJ ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? and Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? to HL ? ? ? Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism ? Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth ?eople ?s Hospital ? Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes ? Shanghai Diabetes Institute ? Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus ? Shanghai Key Clinical Center for Metabolic Disease ? Shanghai ? ? ? ? ? ? ? China ? ? ? Department of Medicine ? Shanghai University School of Medicine ? Shanghai ? ? ? ? ? ? ? China

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Geography, Planning and Development
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Political Science and International Relations

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