James A Tyner: 15 books
The Nature of Revolution
Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
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...
The Politics of Lists
Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
2019 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award winner
Scholars from a number of disciplines have, especially since the advent of the war on terror, developed critical perspectives on a cluster of related topics in contemporary life: militarization, surveillance, policing, biopolitics (the relation...
Violence in Capitalism
Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
What, James Tyner asks, separates the murder of a runaway youth from the death of a father denied a bone-marrow transplant because of budget cuts? Moving beyond our culture’s reductive emphasis on whether a given act of violence is intentional—and may therefore count as deliberate murder—Tyner...
by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
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...
From Rice Fields to Killing Fields
Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
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...
War, Violence, and Population
Making the Body Count
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Grounded in theory and research, this book offers a spatial perspective on how and why populations are regulated and disciplined by mass violence—and why these questions matter for scholars concerned about social justice. James Tyner focuses on how states and other actors use acts of brutality to...
Genocide and the Geographical Imagination
Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
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...
America's Strategy in Southeast Asia
From Cold War to Terror War
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
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...
Military Legacies
A World Made By War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare.
To understand...
The Business of War
Workers, Warriors and Hostages in Occupied Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Since the cessation of major combat operations in Iraq, approximately 120 people - either contract workers or private soldiers - have been abducted, with one-third being executed. The largest contingent of these workers has been provided by the Philippines. Through a specific, though not exclusive,...
The Philippines
Mobilities, Identities, Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence.
For...
by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
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...
by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, this book argues whether the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but...
Space, Place, and Violence
Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Direct, interpersonal violence is a pervasive, yet often mundane feature of our day-to-day lives; paradoxically, violence is both ordinary and extraordinary. Violence, in other words, is often hidden in plain sight. Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically...
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