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Since the ECCC, seeking to try Khmer Rouge leaders in an international tribunal, was first discussed, many conversations in Cambodia have come to focus on the memories and memorialization of the Khmer Rouge past. Based on 10 weeks of ethnographic field research in summer 2014, including participant-observation, interviews, and a survey, as well as semiotic analysis, this analysis considers how one prominent history museum in Phnom Penh, the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, (re)presents these ongoing conversations to foreign and national visitors. In particular, this research frames these (re)presentations as a form of implicit public relations in lieu of more formalized communication methods, and it broadens considerations of public relations as something that can act externally on the museum. The project explores debates at the museum relating to museum, education, authenticity, tourism, and memorialization as they relate to communication strategies that shape Tuol Sleng’s identity as an institution in the “post-justice” aftermath of the ECCC’s Case 001, in which its focus is shifting away from survivors to the next generation. |
