Indigenous politics, public health and the Cambodian colonial state

Author: Au, Sokhieng

Source: South East Asia Research, Volume 14, Number 1, March 2006 , pp. 33-86(54)

Publisher: IP Publishing Ltd

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Abstract:

This article examines controversies surrounding the implementation of the first colonial indigenous health service, the Assistance Médicale, in Cambodia. It characterizes individual and group behaviours in the immediate social conditions of colonial Cambodian society, as well as some of the paradoxes of the modernization narrative ascribed to the colonial science of this period. This discussion supports a more general aim of furthering the understanding of Khmer political behaviour in the colonial period. A history of medical controversies reveals the changing nature of indigenous response to the colonial state, and provides alternative models to existing tropes of Khmer socio-political behaviour.

Keywords: AGRARIAN RESISTANCE; PLAGUE; PUBLIC HEALTH; FRENCH COLONIALISM

Document Type: Research article

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