Timothy Williams publishes in Memory Studies

Timothy Williams has published an article “Remembering and silencing complexity in post-genocide memorialisation: Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum” inMemory Studies. In the article, he explores how complexity around roles of perpetrator, victim or hero is remembered and silenced in a post-genocide memorial space that included many complex political actors during its tenure as a security centre: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia. He studies the audio guide and permanent and temporary exhibitions (as well as changes to these) and shows how these allow for a co-existence of competing memories, demonising the Khmer Rouge regime for its immense cruelty and simultaneously constructing victimhood for former Khmer Rouge cadres. This could serve as a starting point for discussing complexity, but instead silences in the exhibitions and audio guide create an ambivalence in attributing these roles that masks this complexity.