ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyses different non-governmental organization (NGO) programmes against gender-based violence (GBV) in Cambodia in order to understand what notions of power, agency and resistance reside within these programmes. It discusses GBV issues within the Extraordinary Court of the Chambers of Cambodia (ECCC), which has been established to deal with crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge (KR) period. The book outlines some examples of how different representations have different impacts in negotiating power. It builds upon participant observation and in-depth interviews with all relevant 'groups' of stakeholders in the ECCC. It explores the impacts of globalisation from a resistance perspective. The book explains the move to the linguistic within feminist studies and concludes that this progress has provided significant advantages showing how differences are indebted to discursive productions rather than to material 'facts'.
