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Famine in Cambodia - Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics (Paperback)
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Famine in Cambodia - Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics (Paperback)
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series
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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
Vietnamese-controlled People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-1989).
Famine in Cambodia documents how state-induced famine constituted a
form of sovereign violence and operated against the backdrop of
sweeping historical transformations of Cambodian society. It also
highlights how state-induced famines should not be solely framed
from the vantage point in which famine occurs but should also focus
on the geopolitics of state-induced famines, as states other than
Cambodia conditioned the famine in Cambodia. Drawing on an array of
theorists, including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Achille
Mbembe, James A. Tyner provides a conceptual framework to bring
together geopolitics, biopolitics, and necropolitics in an effort
to expand our understanding of state-induced famines. Tyner argues
that state-induced famine constitutes a form of sovereign
violence-a form of power that both takes life and disallows life.
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