Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
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978-1-78348-914-5 • Hardback • November 2016 • $163.00 • (£127.00)
978-1-78348-915-2 • Paperback • November 2016 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
James A. Tyner is Professor of Geography at Kent State University, Ohio. His research operates at the intersection of political and population geography with a focus on war, violence and genocide. He is the author of 13 books, including War, Violence, and Population (2009) which received the AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Geography and Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines’ Will to War (2007) which received the Julian Minghi Award for Outstanding Contribution to Political Geography.
Acknowledgments / 1. ‘Dig a Hole and Bury the Past’ / 2. ‘Their Bones Have Piled Up’ / 3. ‘More Than I Can Speak’ / 4. 'Only if Pregnant Women were Killed' / 5. ‘They Just Kept Bombing’ / 6. ‘They Are Murderous Thugs’ / Bibliography / Index
Moved emotionally and intellectually by thousands of unmarked mass graves from the Cambodian genocide, James Tyner brilliantly exposes the silences in how and where the Khmer Rouge is remembered officially while arguing that this violent past holds an unreconciled place within the lives and landscapes of the present. His theorization of “post-violence” will inform and inspire human rights scholarship and activism well beyond Southeast Asia.
— Derek H. Alderman, Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, University of Tennessee
James Tyner’s study of the mundane landscapes of post-violence – dams, reservoirs, wats, schools, hospitals, unmarked mass graves and burial pits – unearths the legacies of the Khmer Rouge ‘hidden in plain sight’ today. This forensic study of Cambodia's ruins, archival records and survivor’s memories offers nuanced and often unexpected insights into how collective remembrance and forgetting is experienced through the living landscapes of a violent national heritage.
— Karen Till, Senior Lecturer, Maynooth University, Ireland
Most book reviews offer some critical comments, but this study's flaws are
so minor that such comments would be petty. Instead, this review closes with
a suggestion that this book be adopted in college courses, certainly Southeast Asia courses but also for courses on holocaust and human rights studies and
international relations, psychology, and anthropology.
— Journal of Global South Studies
Tyner’s work
serves as a powerful call to recenter the geography of
genocide...his work speaks
to a wide audience of scholars beyond Cambodia, providing
a timely, vivid, and compelling insight that elaborates
contemporary critical geographies of justice, necropower,
biopolitics, and the postcolonial.
— AAG Review of Books