Reading/ watching/ Listening RECOMMENDATIONS

Written By Amira Noeuv

A list of all the resources that directly and tangentially relate to my research + some that are just generally interesting and impactful. They’re in no particular order and there are too many to properly categorize —sorry! If you have any recommendations, please let me know as I will try to update this list as often as I can!

READS

  • Agger, I. (2015). Calming the mind: Healing after mass atrocity in Cambodia. Transcultural Psychiatry, 52(4), 543–560.

  • Anzaldúa, G., Cantú, N., & Hurtado, A. (2012). Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza (4th ed. edition). Aunt Lute Books.

  • August, T. K. (2020). The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America (1st edition). Temple University Press.

  • Baik, C. M. (2022). From “Best” to Situated and Relational: Notes Toward a Decolonizing Praxis. The Oral History Review, 49(1), 3–28.

  • Bakó, T., & Zana, K. (2020). Transgenerational Trauma and Therapy: The Transgenerational Atmosphere. Routledge.

  • Bonus, R. (2020). The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University. Duke University Press Books.

  • Bradley, K.-A. (2024). The ministry of time. Avid Reader Press.

  • brown, adrienne maree. (2017). Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Reprint edition). AK Press.

  • Bui, T. (2017). The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (Illustrated edition). Abrams ComicArts.

  • Caswell, M. (2014). Seeing Yourself in History: Community Archives and the Fight Against Symbolic Annihilation. The Public Historian, 36(4), 26–37.

  • Chea, C. J. (2024). Lotus in the Mud: How Cambodian Refugees Cope, Make Meaning, and Talk About Mental Health [D.Phil., The University of Utah].

  • Chea, J. (2023). Epiphytic Lives: Cambodian American Nonmemory and the Value of Silence. Social Text, 41(4 (157)), 83–103.

  • Chhem, R. K. (2000). Medicine and Culture in Ancient Cambodia.

  • Dao, L. T. (2020). Generation Rising: A New Politics of Southeast Asian American Activism. Eastwind Books of Berkeley.

  • Das Gupta, M. (2019). “KNOw History/KNOw Self”: Khmer Youth Organizing for Justice in Long Beach. Amerasia Journal, 45(2), 137–156.

  • Dimaline, C. (2017). The marrow thieves. DCB.

  • Doolittle, S. (2003, March). Ten Reasons Why Militarism is Bad for the Environment. https://education.madinamerica.com/p/default-teachable-homepage

  • Espiritu, Y. L. (2003). Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. In Home Bound. University of California Press.

  • Espiritu, Y. L. (2014). Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees. University of California Press.

  • Espiritu, Y. L., Duong, L., Vang, M., Bascara, V., Um, K., Sharif, L., & Hatton, N. (2022). Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies.

  • Findlay, D. (2023). Gathering our medicine: Strengthening and healing kinship and community. 19(2), 356–365.

  • Ginwright, S. (2020, December 9). The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement. Medium. https://ginwright.medium.com/the-future-of-healing-shifting-from-trauma-informed-care-to-healing-centered-engagement-634f557ce69c

  • Hammad, I. (2023). Enter ghost (First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition). Grove Press.

  • Hartman, S. V. (2019). Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. W. W. Norton Company.

  • Hobart, H. J. K., & Kneese, T. (2020). Radical Care: Survival Strategies for Uncertain Times. Social Text, 38(1 (142)), 1–16.

  • Hune, S., & Nomura, G. M. (2020). Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women. NYU Press.

  • Jacobsen, T. (2008). Lost goddesses: The denial of female power in cambodian history. NIAS Press.

  • Jolivétte, A. J. (Ed.). (2015). Research Justice: Methodologies for social change (1st ed.). Bristol University Press.

  • Kang, S. (2023). What Is Refugee Resilience? Reframing Survival under Environmental Sacrifice. American Studies (Lawrence), 61(3), 43–76.

  • Kelly, K., & Williams, R. angel K. (2022). American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal. North Atlantic Books.

  • Khúc, M. (n.d.). dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. Duke University Press.

  • Kimmerer, R. W. (2015). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (First Edition). Milkweed Editions.

  • Kwan, Y. Y. (2019). Providing Asset-Based Support for Asian American Refugees: Interrogating Transgenerational Trauma, Resistance, and Affective Capital. New Directions for Higher Education, 2019(186), 37–47.

  • Le, T. D. T. (2004). The Gangster We Are All Looking For (Reprint edition). Anchor.

  • Levins Morales, A. (2019). Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals.

  • Lin, M. (2022). Khmer Girls in Action and healing justice: Expanding understandings of anti-Asian racism and public health solutions. Frontiers in Public Health, 10. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.956308

  • Linklater, R., & Mehl-Madrona, L. (2014). Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies (First Edition). Fernwood Publishing.

  • Mac, J., Yi, V., Na, V., Thaviseth, L., Phommasa, M., & Pheng, L. (2021). The SEAAster Scholars Collective: A Story of Homemaking in Academia. Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, 16(1).

  • May, S., Macquet, C., Walker, T., So, P., & Taing, R. (2022). Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages. University of Hawaii Press.

  • Menakem, R. (2017). My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (1st edition). Central Recovery Press.

  • Millner, U. C., Maru, M., Ismail, A., & Chakrabarti, U. (2021). Decolonizing mental health practice: Reconstructing an Asian-centric framework through a social justice lens. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 12(4), 333–345.

  • Mills, C. (2013). Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The psychiatrization of the majority world (1st edition). Routledge.

  • Mollica, R. F. (2008). Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World (1st edition). Vanderbilt University Press.

  • Nguyen, L. T. (2024). Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production. Temple University Press.

  • Nguyen, V. (2019). Refugeetude: When Does a Refugee Stop Being a Refugee. Social Text, 37(2), 109–131.

  • Nguyen, V. (2023). Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience.

  • Nguyen-vo, T. (2024). Almost Futures: Sovereignty and Refuge at World’s End (1st ed., Vol. 6). University of California Press.

  • Ginwright, S.A. (2022). The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves. North Atlantic Books.

  • Phim, N. (2007). Reflections of a Khmer Soul. Navy Phim.

  • Samreth, M. (2024). Redefining Our Identity as Children of Cambodian Genocide Survivors, an interview by Maryann Samreth. Clerestory Magazine. Issue No. 5. https://clerestorymag.com/interviews/redefining-our-identity-as-children-of-cambodian-genocide-survivors

  • Simpson, L. B. (2017). As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press. http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=30ba57279fd9572484dbcc4601e83d33

  • Su, C. (2021). Voices of a New Generation: Cambodian Americans in the Creative Arts. Southeast Asia Research & Cultural Heritage (SEARCH) Center.

  • Takaki, R. (1990). Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Penguin Books.

  • Tang, E. (2015). Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto (Illustrated edition). Temple University Press.

  • Thomas, S. R. (2015). Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (W. Imarisha & adrienne maree brown, Eds.; 1st edition). AK Press.

  • Toch, L. (2024). Historical Trauma in Context: Perceived Effects Among Second Generation Cambodian Americans on a Personal, Family, and Community Level. DePaul University.

  • Tran, J. K.-A. (2021). On Becoming Tender: Conversations with My Father. Amerasia Journal, 47(1), 134–143.

  • Troeung, Y.-D. (2023). Landbridge: (Life in fragments). Alchemy by Knopf Canada.

  • Troeung, Y.-D. (2022). Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia. Temple University Press.

    Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79(3), 409–428.

  • Um, K. (2015). From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora. NYU Press.

  • Valencia, S. (2018). Gore Capitalism (J. Pluecker, Trans.). Semiotext.

  • Veak, V. L. (2025). Color me khmao: The effects of social factors on colorism among Khmer women. Frontiers in Sociology, 10.

  • Vuong, O. (2019). On earth we’re briefly gorgeous. Penguin Press.

  • Watters, E. (2011). Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the Western Mind. Robinson.

  • Wong, K. (2021). The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (M.-L. K. Hong, C. Y. Lau, & P. Sharma, Eds.). University of California Press.

  • Yu, C. (2020). Interior Chinatown. Pantheon.

  • Zaragoza-Petty, A. (2022). Chingona: Owning your inner badass for healing and justice , Alma Zaragoza-Petty. Broadleaf Books.

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