Preface: A genealogy of the Cold War in Cambodia -- Introduction: On war, disability, and refugee life -- Cambodia's Cold War episteme -- Debility and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia -- Cripping the Kapok tree and the Cambodian genocide -- Aphasia and the nervous condition of refugee asylum -- Coda: Boneyards of the Cold War
Summary
"Utilizing the concept of aphasia, this book demonstrates how Cambodian refugee narratives resist state violence and take head-on hegemonic discourses across popular and scholarly spaces that prop up colonial, imperial, capitalist, heteropatriarchal, and ableist formations of the Cold War in Cambodia"-- Provided by publisher
