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  • 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

    $21.99 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

    $11.99 USD

  • Violence in Capitalism

    Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility

    by James A. Tyner ...
    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 interrogates the broader forces that produce violence. His uniquely geographic perspective considers ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $72.99 USD

  • The Business of War

    Workers, Warriors and Hostages in Occupied Iraq

    by James A. Tyner ...
    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, focus on the Philippines connection, this book considers the myriad ways in which transnational ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • 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

    $59.99 USD

  • The Politics of Lists

    Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge

    by James A. Tyner ...
    2019 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award winnerScholars 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 between state power and physical bodies), and the like. James A. Tyner, a geographer who has contributed ... Read more

    $11.99 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

    $21.99 USD

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  • Space, Place, and Violence

    Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex and Gender

    by James A. Tyner ...
    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 question both violent geographies and the geographies of violence. With a focus on direct violence ... Read more

    $68.99 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

    $20.99 USD

  • The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space

    by James A. Tyner ...
    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 also terracide - the erasure of space. In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges ... Read more

    $82.99 USD