Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier, Ph. D. (1971), is associate researcher at the University of Nottingham. She has published several articles and book chapters on Cambodia, and edited a special issue on Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Mémoires en Jeu (2018). Anne-Laure Porée, Ph. D (1975), is affiliated with the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS). She has assisted the TSGM team with research and training. She has edited a special issue on Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Mémoires en Jeu (2018).

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Introduction: New Sources, Practices, and Challenges for a Multifaceted History of Khmer Rouge Crimes

 Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier and Anne-Laure Porée



PART 1: S-21: Archaeologies of Violence



1 M-13: the Rural Prototype of S-21

 Hang Nisay

2 Purity and Control in Khmer Rouge Interrogators’ Notebooks and Confessions

 Daniel Bultmann

3 A Unique Series of Testimonies: Memoirs of S-21 Survivors

 Anne-Laure Porée



Part 2: The Witnessing Machine: The Museum’s Early Years



4 Witnesses Abroad: Early Visitors and the TSGM Visitor Books

 Rachel Hughes

5 Holocaust References in the Early Years of Tuol Sleng

 Christina Ullrich

6 Polish Visitors in Tuol Sleng: the Issue of Nazi-Khmer Rouge Analogies

 Rafal Pankowski



Part 3: Museum’s (Im)materialities



7 Understanding S-21 at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

 Barbara Thimm

8 Listening to the Museum: Affective Encounters with the Tuol Sleng Audio-Tour

 Bridie Shepherd

9 Threads of Evidence: Textile and Clothing Remains at Tuol Sleng

 Julia M. Brennan and Magali An Berthon



Part 4: The Politics of Justice



10 S-21 Archives as Evidence: From Early Accounts until Today

 Helen Jarvis

11 Confronting the Dead: an Anthropologist’s Engagement with Human Remains at Choeung Ek

 Julie Fleischman

12 “S-21 as a Purge Center but Not Only”
 Interview with Helen Worsnop

 Helen Worsnop and Anne-Laure Porée



Part 5: Global Icon



13 The Haunting Image and Memorial Construction for the 1.5 Generation: S-21/Tuol Sleng in Francophone Sequential Art

 Caroline D. Laurent

14 Tuol Sleng’s Photographic Portraits

 Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier

15 Irradiations of Violence<

 Interview with Rithy Panh

 Rithy Panh, Anne-Laure Porée and Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier

16 When the Dead Bring the Living: the Global Connections of Choeung Ek and Tuol Sleng

 Caroline Bennett



Conclusion: Towards a Historiographical Kaleidoscope

 Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier and Anne-Laure Porée



Index