ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in this book. In the Cambodian case at least, social resources gained momentum during wartime, with a displaced peasantry looking for patrons who could care of them after the rupture of kinship ties and the militarization of older patrimonial networks in politics. Each of the habitus groups has a different power type that it tries to establish, maintain, or use to undermine rule. The power techniques of each leadership group differ along certain lines, many of which can be described using concepts presented by Michel Foucault. While Foucault himself analyzes the rising up and assertion of discursive formations and power types as a relational struggle, he does not frame these relations as social relations in the sense of a society's social structure. Commanders from the old military elite use military drill as learned in French academies, a mixture between physical modeling and collective humiliation.
