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DESCRIPTION:Metta Means I’m Sorry you’re Sorry: Intimate Enemies and inters
 ubjective Agency in Cambodia\n\nDarcie De Angelo\n	������\n\nSch
 olars have asserted that because Cambodians are Buddhist\, they rationaliz
 e violence and trauma through ontological alterity\, that is\, a Buddhist 
 ‘lack of agency’ (Cassaniti 2012). Karma\, reincarnation\, codes of strict
  behaviour\, and hierarchy weave the ‘red thread’ that explain how people 
 ’allow’ violence to take place. But\, in Cambodia\, these arguments risk r
 epeating colonial convictions of ‘docile’ subjects\, which do not correspo
 nd to histories of political uprisings\, sanctioned revenge\, and genocide
 . Today\, former Khmer Rouge leaders and cadre must live and work side-by-
 side with their victims. How can we ‘archaeologize’ the ‘lack of agency’ o
 r rather\, the contemporary understandings about self-expressed in Khmer R
 ouge survival narratives in another way? What are the logical extrapolatio
 ns of different expressions of agency when Cambodians say they feel metta 
 for demining rats and dogs\, that means\, according to a deminer: “I’m sor
 ry you’re sorry”? My fieldwork among deminers\, who work with mine detecti
 on rats\, shows that metta\, or ‘pity-love\,’ a Buddhist sentiment\, when 
 taken on its own terms rather than translated\, helps to understand Khmer 
 Rouge survival stories as a way to provoke pity in the listener. To be pit
 iable in Cambodia is to be loveable\, but\, more importantly\, for a postg
 enocidal nation\, to be pitiable proclaims the teller’s innocence. This is
  especially significant when Cambodians must confront the material remnant
 s of war\, when Khmer Rouge leaders manage demining organizations\, and wh
 ere every survivor\, including one’s self\, is an “intimate enemy” (Theido
 n 2012).\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:Metta Means I’m Sorry you’re Sorry: Intimate Enemies and Intersubje
 ctive agency
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