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Disunity in Postcolonial Laos Disunity in Postcolonial Laos
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Discourses of Unity and Progress Discourses of Unity and Progress
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Performing Unity and Progress in 1964 Performing Unity and Progress in 1964
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Sport and Modernity in Postcolonial Laos Sport and Modernity in Postcolonial Laos
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4 Sport and the Theatrics of Power
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Published:December 2014
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This chapter looks at how the modern sporting spectacle combined with existing genres of state performance had culminated in a demonstration of national unity and progress. At the same time, the chapter examines the two-decade period after the 1954 Geneva Agreements, which was defined by intractable division and protracted civil war, leading to a discussion in discourses of unity and the relationship of sport and modernity in postcolonial Laos. Central to this discussion is the performance of sport in Laos during this period and the particular meanings such spectacles engendered for the state. A product of their time, the theatrics of power was transformed by the cultural flows, practices, and technologies accompanying colonialism and American aid—especially the technologies of Olympic spectacle.
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