2007
- PhD in Urban Studies.
- Title : Rebirth of public spaces in the Cambodian capital : urban appropriations processes and urban dynamics of the new inhabitants from Phnom Penh.
Abstract:
After the Khmer Rouges regime, the return to city life is a possibility at the same time the concept of property becomes a reality and consumption the main urban practice of the new city dwellers of Cambodia. The vendors on the sidewalk block the pedestrians. The urban specificity of Phnom Penh is characterized by the presence of many and various mobile businesses contributing to the urban landscape. The social life of the streets of Phnom Penh is marked by the private use of its space and the social status distinction.
Phnom Penh itself is movement, the urban scenes are in perpetual changes. The movement in the city is also thousands of young people with motor bikes who loiter in the streets of the capital. The public spaces of Phnom Penh adapt, modulate and change according to different traditional celebrations. It becomes city of leisure according to various days’ of the week. It is city of the politics with it flags and, city of the people who celebrate the national festivals together. The movement of a city is also the migrations of population. Phnom Penh have known a recent re population, it is important to recall the history of its inhabitants. To learn how to be an urban, to know the city and to tame it are necessary skills in the representation of oneself as city dweller.
Key words: Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Urban anthropology, city, street, sidewalk, consumption, mobile business
2003
- DEA in Social Sciences at ENS/EHESS (école normale supérieure de Paris, école des hautes études en sciences sociales de Paris).
- Major with Jean-Pierre HASSOUN, sociologist-ethnologist at CNRS: “The Buddhist religious institution in a trans-national configuration”
- Minor with Sébastien VELUT, geographer at ENS : ”Phnom Penh urbanization under an authoritarian regime: the case study of the Chaktomuk urban planning”
2002
- Master in Social Anthropology with Anne RAULIN and Jean-Pierre WARNIER at the
Sorbonne “The urban scene of the khmeritude, the studies of consumption at the Vincennes Pagoda”, Paris, France.
2001
- BA in Sociology and in Social Anthropology at the Sorbonne, Paris, France.
1999
- DS (BA) in Khmer civilization and literature at INALCO, Paris, France.