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Famine in Cambodia: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics

Famine in Cambodia: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics

Tyner, James A.

Paperback

Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

AgricultureGeneral SociologySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0820363723
ISBN13: 9780820363721
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Apr 15 2023
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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