ABSTRACT
Commemorative sites such as museums and monuments, being widely accessible to the international memory community, constitute a form of soft power which provide tools for forging political connections, often at the expense of the local communities whose trauma process is not reflected in the official public landscape. In particular, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia provides an interesting case study of a cultural institution’s efforts to navigate transnational social spaces by playing into the dominant framework of cosmopolitan memory.
