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  • From Rice Fields to Killing Fields

    Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge

    by James A. Tyner ...
    Series series Syracuse Studies in Geography
    Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's Strategy in Southeast Asia

    From Cold War to Terror War

    by James A. Tyner ...
    Geography encompasses everything from the local—where human beings live, work, and travel—to metageographies like nations and regions. James A. Tyner's inventive and multidisciplinary ideas on geography similarly range from the personal—his father's experience in the military during the Vietnam War—to a broad discussion of how the United States has come to exercise power through the production of ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia

    by James A. Tyner ...
    Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia enacted a program of organized mass violence that resulted in the deaths of approximately one quarter of the country’s population. Over two million people died from torture, execution, disease and famine. From the commodification of the ‘killing fields’ of Choeung Ek to the hundreds of unmarked mass graves scattered across the country, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines' Will to War

    by James A. Tyner ...
    After September 11, 2001, United States President George W. Bush put together a 'Coalition of the Willing.' From the very beginning this coalition included the Philippines, a willing participant in the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and the larger War on Terror. This timely and persuasive book argues that the Philippines' recent foreign policy must be understood by considering three ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Genocide and the Geographical Imagination

    Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia

    by James A. Tyner ...
    This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and China’s Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of these horrifying cases provides insight into the larger questions of sovereignty and state policies that determine who will ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Red Harvests

    Agrarian Capitalism and Genocide in Democratic Kampuchea

    by James A. Tyner ...
    Series series Radical Natures
    Reassessing the Cambodian genocide through the lens of global capitalist development.James Tyner reinterprets the place of agriculture under the Khmer Rouge, positioning it in new ways relative to Marxism, capitalism, and genocide. The Cambodian revolutionaries’ agricultural management is widely viewed by critics as irrational and dangerous, and it is invoked as part of wider efforts to discredit ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $11.59 USD

  • Made in the Philippines

    by James A. Tyner ...
    Series series Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
    The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary contract labor with a huge 800,000 workers a year being deployed on either six month or two year contracts. This labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues that migrants are socially constructed, or 'made' by these parties and that migrants in turn become ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Famine in Cambodia

    Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics

    by James A. Tyner ...
    Series Book 55 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    This book examines three consecutive famines in Cambodia during the 1970s, exploring both continuities and discontinuities of all three. Cambodia experienced these consecutive famines against the backdrop of four distinct governments: the Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970), the U.S.-supported Khmer Republic (1970–1975), the communist Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979), and the Vietnamese-controlled ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Mutants, Androids, and Aliens

    On Being Human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    by James A. Tyner ...
    In both literature and film, mutants, androids, and aliens have long functioned as humanity’s Other—nonhuman bodies serving as surrogates to explore humanity’s prejudice, bigotry, and hatred. Scholars working in fields of feminism, ethnic studies, queer studies, and disability studies, among others, have deconstructed representations of the Othered body and the ways these fictional depictions ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Apathy of Empire

    Cambodia in American Geopolitics

    by James A. Tyner ...
    What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War reveals about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategyThe Apathy of Empire reveals just how significant Cambodia was to U.S. policy in Indochina during the Vietnam War, broadening the lens to include more than the often-cited incursion in 1970 or the illegal bombing after the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. This theoretically informed ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Nature of Revolution

    Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge

    by James A. Tyner ...
    The Nature of Revolution provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. James A. Tyner repositions Khmer Rouge artworks within their proper political and economic context: the materialization of a political organization in an era of anticolonial and decolonization movements. Consequently, both the organization’s policies and practices—including the ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The Alienated Subject

    On the Capacity to Hurt

    by James A. Tyner ...
    A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacyFrom the divisiveness of the Trump era to the Covid-19 pandemic, alienation has become an all-too-familiar contemporary concept. In this groundbreaking book, James A. Tyner offers a novel framework for understanding the alienated subject, situating it within racial ... Read more

    $20.19 USD