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  • Mutants, Androids, and Aliens
    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 fict...
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    42,99 €

  • The Nature of Revolution
    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 prac...
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    37,25 €

  • Famine in Cambodia
    James A Tyner
    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 Vietn...
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    37,15 €

  • Red Harvests
    James A Tyner
    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...
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    40,71 €

  • Made in the Philippines
    James A. Tyner
    Labour migration is regulated by the government private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues that migrants are socially constructed by these parties and that migrants in turn become political resources. ...
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    80,34 €

  • Politics of Lists
    James A Tyner
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    33,38 €

  • The Killing of Cambodia
    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 ...
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    104,50 €

  • Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
    James A Tyner / James A. Tyner / James ATyner
    This book explores how the legacy of violence during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia is memorialized. Engaging with war, violence and critical heritage studies, the book looks at how the selective production of heritage diminishes opportunities for justice and reconciliation beyond the violence. It should be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in herit...
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    72,25 €

  • Space, Place, and Violence
    James A. Tyner
    Adopting a geographic perspective, Space, Place, and Violence provides a critical reading of how violence takes place and also produces place. Specifically, four spatial vignettes-home, school, streets, and community-are introduced, designed so that students may think critically how ’race’, sex, gender, and class inform violent geographies and geographies of violence. ...
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    88,31 €

  • The Philippines
    James A. Tyner
    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 over five centuries the Philippines has been integrated into the world economy....
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    70,54 €

  • America’s Strategy in Southeast Asia
    James A. Tyner / James ATyner
    Since the end of the Second World War, Southeast Asia has served as a surrogate space to further American imperial interests, which are economic, political, territorial, and moral in scope. America’s Strategy in Southeast Asia contends that the construction of Southeast Asia as a geographic entity has been a crucial component in the creation of the American empire. America’s mo...
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    69,51 €

  • Oriental Bodies
    James A. Tyner / James ATyner
    Oriental Bodies charts the discursive transformations of U.S. immigration policy between 1875 and 1942. Drawing from American foreign policy, identity politics, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, and feminist theory, this fascinating study seeks to examine the construction of ’Oriental bodies’ within the emergence of U.S. immigration policy and explores how these constructio...
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    63,53 €

  • Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines’ Will to War
    James A Tyner / James A. Tyner / James ATyner
    After September 11, 2001, U.S. 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...
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    58,19 €