Savina Sirik
Postdoctoral position at Department of History; Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 57 80
- E-mail:
- savina.sirik@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3B, 1 tr
- Postal address:
- Box 521
751 20 Uppsala
Short presentation
Savina Sirik is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University. Savina has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout Cambodia, working to document the experiences of survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide. Her main research interests include memories and narratives of survivors, intergenerational memories, memorialization, victimhood, and perpetrators. She holds a PhD in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Publications
Recent publications
Part of Cambodia's Trials, p. 102-125, NIAS Press, 2023
Negotiating Memories: Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia
2022
The Fluctuating Visibility of Everyday Violence in Khmer Rouge Era Cambodia
Part of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, p. 217-243, 2022
Part of Journal of Political Power, p. 233-251, 2020
Education and Preservation of Sites of Conscience
Part of Memory of Nations: Democratic Transition Guide the Cambodian Experience, CEVRO, 2018
All publications
Articles in journal
The Fluctuating Visibility of Everyday Violence in Khmer Rouge Era Cambodia
Part of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, p. 217-243, 2022
Part of Journal of Political Power, p. 233-251, 2020
Nature, Poetry, and Public Pedagogy: The Poetic Geographies of the Khmer Rouge
Part of Annals of the Association of American Geographers, p. 1285-1299, 2015
Landscape Photography, Geographic Education, and Nation‐Building In Democratic Kampuchea, 1975–1979
Part of Geographical Review, p. 566-580, 2015
Museum of Memory: Promoting Healing in Cambodia through History, Culture and Arts
Part of Museum Worlds, p. 133-169, 2014
Violence and the Dialectics of Landscape: Memorialization in Cambodia
Part of Geographical Review, p. 277-293, 2014
Phnom Penh during the Cambodian Genocide: A Case of Selective Urbicide
Part of Environment and planning A, p. 1873-1891, 2014
Books
Everyday Experience of Genocide Survivors in Landscapes of Violence
Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2016
Chapters in book
Part of Cambodia's Trials, p. 102-125, NIAS Press, 2023
Education and Preservation of Sites of Conscience
Part of Memory of Nations: Democratic Transition Guide the Cambodian Experience, CEVRO, 2018
Violence and Memorialization in Cambodia
Part of The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia, p. 368-377, Routledge, 2016