The areas in Phnom Penh which were evicted over the last decennium are mostly feeding a chimera of development, nurturing a gentrification which targets the Cambodian or Chinese 1%. Lively cities are not made of a string of ghetto’s containing specific social groups. The presence and intertwinement of rich and poor within the same urban […]
About 200 villagers who were forcefully evicted from their land in Kratie are stuck at the Samaky Reangsey pagoda in Phnom Penh for over one month now. Threats to evict them from the pagoda are followed by promises of finding a solution. What else is there for them to do but resist, wait, sleep? They […]
I keep documenting changes in landscapes of areas people were evicted from. Here are the latest additions to that story on my website. Does anyone with a witty pen and an interest in urbanism feel like writing a text for this body of work? If so shoot me an email, I’ll explain more…
A new report by human rights NGO LICADHO states that half a million people in just 13 provinces in Cambodia were affected by land issues since the year 2000 (see the report HERE). Also see ‘Quest for Land’, an app for the iPad, which gives an overview of land issues since 2000. You can download […]
Evicted or under threat of being evicted communities from Phnom Penh staged a sit-in in front of the E.U. delegation to draw the attention to the fact that many of the land issues they are involved in for the past years are not being resolved in a satisfactory or diligent way… This is a follow-up […]
In a contest of stubbornness several communities, well… the usual ones actually, gathered in front of the City Hall gates to seek a resolution to the ongoing land issues they are having. It is not the first time. It will not be the last time. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ […]
About 30 members from the Borei Keila community who live in shacks since their eviction in January 2012 (see HERE) gathered in front of the Municipal Court. They request information about the complaint they filed last week regarding the violent behaviour from municipal guards when they were occupying a building which was promised to them. […]
‘Development Landscapes’ is a series of photographs, initiated a few years back, which tracks the evolution of the landscape in areas where people were evicted from in Phnom Penh. Much more at THIS LINK.