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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 leftist movements. Researching the
specific functioning of Cambodia's transition from farms to
agriculture within the context of the global economy, Tyner comes
to a different conclusion. He finds that analysis of "actually
existing political economy"-as opposed to the Marxist
identification the Khmer Rouge claimed-points to overlap between
Cambodian practice and agrarian capitalism.Tyner argues that
dissolution of the traditional Khmer family farm under the aegis of
state capitalism is central to any understanding of the mass
violence unleashed by the Khmer Rouge. Seen less as a radical
outlier than as part of a global shift in farming and food
politics, the Cambodian tragedy imparts new lessons to our
understanding of the political economy of genocide.
During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between
half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are
staggering; the methods of killing were unspeakable. Utilizing
personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities,
towns, and dusty villages, We Cannot Forget relates what happened
during this period and what their lives were like both prior to and
following the genocide.
Through powerful stories that are at once memorable, disturbing,
and informative, readers gain a critical sense of the tensions and
violence that preceded the genocide, how it erupted and was carried
out, and what these people faced in the first sixteen years
following the genocide.
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Coniston
(Paperback)
Michael Bradley
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R595
Discovery Miles 5 950
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'Mowed them down wholesale!' With these words, a judge summed up
the last great punitive massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia.
Coniston, Central Australia, 1928: the murder of an itinerant
prospector at this isolated station by local Warlpiri triggered a
series of police-led expeditions that ranged over vast areas for
two months, as the hunting parties shot down victims by the dozen.
The official death toll, declared by the whitewash federal inquiry
as being all in self-defence, was 31. The real number was certainly
multiples of that. Coniston has never before been fully researched
and recorded; with this book that absence in Australia's history is
now filled. As the last great mass killing in our country's
genocidal past but an event largely unremembered, it reminds us
that, without truth, there can be no reconciliation.
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