The article explores changing popular conceptions of appropriate models of provision to assess to what extent there has been a growth of a rights-based conscience in Cambodia under the current neo-patrimonial regime.

Dr. Astrid Norén-Nilsson will join the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies as a senior lecturer November 1. She obtained her PhD as a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge in May 2013. Her research focuses on questions of state-society relations, nationalism, identity politics and citizenship in Cambodia, to evaluate the the new political order emerging there.