Kambujavidya
Knowledge of Cambodia

       Each issue of the journal will analyse a specific subject linked to a peculiar aspect of the Cambodian social space. Specialists on the selected subject will be able to publish articles in Khmer, English and French. All the articles in English and French will be followed by a Khmer translation. Each issue will also include reviews of books, articles and debates on Cambodia and Southeast Asia .

There will be two issues per year, and the subjects selected will be as follows:

Islam in South-East Asia

Part I : The situation of Islam in SEA

Introduction
Omar Farouk
The place of jawi, tradition of kitab jawi/kitab kuning in SEA or The dilemnas of Muslim Minorities
( Hiroshima City University , Japan )
omar@intl.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp

Indonesia
Romain Bertrand
(CERI-Sciences Po , Paris )
bertrand@ceri-sciences-po.org

Elsa clave
Islam in Aceh : Shariah and Tsunami
(PhD candidate, Paris)
elsaclave@hotmail.com

Malaysia
Shamsul Amri Baharuddin
(UKM, Malaysia )
shamsul_ab@yahoo.com

South of Thailand
Chaiwat Satha-Anand
Understanding Muslims' Voices in the context of "Pure War"
( Thammasat University , Thailand )
chaiwatpong@yahoo.com

Arnaud Dubus
The crisis in South of Thailand
(french journalist)
arnauddubus@yahoo.com

Burma
Jean Berlie
Arakan muslims
berliej@hotmail.com

Philippines
Jean-Philippe Busson
Situation in Mindanao
(PhD candidate, Paris)
j_busson@hotmail.com

Introduction
Ibrahim Abu Bakar
Islamic thought trends in Middle East and South East Asia
(UKM, Malaysia )

Indonesia
Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad
Voices of Islam in SEA after 11 september : Islam hadhari and Islam liberal
(Wailalak University, Nakhnon Si Tammarat, Thailand)
bkamaruz@wu.ac.th

Noorhaidi Hasan
Salafi madrasa in Indonesia
(UIN SK, Indonesia )

Malaysia
Farish Noor
PAS and islamic parties in Malaysia
(ZMO, Berlin )
farishahmadnoor@yahoo.co.uk

South of Thailand
Alexander Horstmann
Tradition, modernism and dawa movements in Thailand
( University of Munster , Germany )
alexander.horstmann@uni-muenster.de

Philippines
Jean-Philippe Busson
Balik Islam in the Philippines
(PhD candidate)

Cambodia
Agnes De Feo
Tabligh and Middle-East missionaries in Cambodia
(PhD candidate and journalist)
agnesdefeo@yahoo.fr

Khmer Rouge discourse analysis.

       Discourse analysis has undergone considerable development in the past 20 years. It has, to a large extent, crossed the borderline of linguistic analysis to incorporate pragmatics, cultural anthropology, sociology and semiotic approaches.

       We have a large discursive corpus produced by the Khmer Rouge regime available to us today. These texts have hitherto only been the object of an historical approach. As this approach allowed the framework of events to be reconstructed and responsibilities to be defined, it was entirely legitimate. In the present context, a few months before the beginning of the trial of the Democratic Kampuchea leaders, it is essential to produce another kind of analysis in order to highlight the genesis and the underlying characteristics of the Khmer Rouge discourse. Beyond the specific properties of the Khmer Rouge discourse, this issue of the journal intends to set it back in the context and logic of totalitarian discourse as such.

Law codification in Cambodia
from the Angkorian period
to the beginning of the third millennium.

       Khmer law has from the beginning been a written law. This issue of the journal will draw out the logic of law codification in Cambodia through an historical analysis that will take into account:

Angkorian period legal texts (Preah Khan stele). The chbab written from the XVth century. Bishop Cordier's and Adhémard Lecleres' work and commentaries. French Protectorate codification. Cambodian codification from 1962. Present-day (2000) Cambodian codification with the technical assistance of foreign experts.

Chinese Cambodians

       Two books about the Chinese Cambodian minority have been written by William Willmott: "The political structure of the Chinese community in Cambodia ", 1967; and "Chinese Cambodians", 1970. In more than 35 years Cambodia has gone through crucial changes (no less than 6 political regimes, civil war, genocide), and it is purely and simply impossible to understand the present-day Chinese-Cambodian minority and the economic role played by this group on the basis of these two books. This issue of the journal will offer a multidisciplinary analysis of the Chinese-Cambodian minority on historical, anthropological, linguistic, geographical and sociological grounds .

Education in Cambodia :
history and present-day issues.

This issue of the journal will be a study of two subjects:

Educational structure, contents and material in the Cambodian tradition. This approach to the traditional Cambodian educational system will be based on anthropological and sociological methods. The issue will stress the importance of oral transmission, on the one hand, and the written production of the Buddhist monasteries, on the other. Far from being a reduction to pure history, our approach will examine the various repercussions of these teaching methods on the present day.

The sudden emergence of modernity. A comparative analysis of the educational programs as well as a sociological approach to teaching from the French Protectorate period will allow a fresh look to be taken at the crucial educational problems Cambodia had, and still has, to face: Khmerization, illiteracy, education in a rural context, policies promoting literacy among linguistic and cultural minorities.