ABSTRACT

This chapter develops a framework that brings the fields of Critical Refugee Studies and Critical Disability Studies together to revisit the histories and afterlives of the Cold War in Cambodia, where three decades of “hot” fighting on Cambodian territory resulted in the widespread physical and psychological impairment of over 4 million Cambodian people. In the chapter's second half, I look at how Cambodian refugee artists have located the crip Cambodian refugee body-mind at the center of their artwork, even when such artwork does not include narratives of people themselves, but torn landscapes and other remnants of war.