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Inspiring case-study chapters focused on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Rwanda pull no punches as they illustrate how bodies are disciplined and populations regulated through practices such as rape, the targeting of civilians, and ethnic cleansing...Will spark discussion and debate in courses on population and globalization, human geography, political economy, gender and critical race studies, and social justice and activism. -- Adrian Bailey, School of Geography, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK This compelling book tackles head-on issues that population geography has been skirting around for years. Paying sustained attention to often shockingly violent biopolitical manipulations of morbidity, mortality, migration, and marriage, Tyner puts flesh, blood, and bones on the skeletal figures and graphs of population dynamics and distribution. This book demands to be read. - Chris Philo, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Making the case for a 're-humanization' of population geography, this compelling book will be of interest to a broad community of social scientists. It will be a useful supplementary text for an introductory cultural/human geography course or an advanced population geography or development course. - Richard Wright, Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs and Geography, Dartmouth College, USA Tyner identifies valuable connections between population geography and poststructural and postcolonial theory, and helps scholars understand how particular forms of knowledge have legitimated and perpetuated specific geographies and histories of violence. This is an important book not only for what it contributes to the political vocabulary of population geography, but even more strikingly, for how it pushes forward understanding of the spatial politics of state-sanctioned violence and genocide. - Rachel Silvey, Department of Geography and Programme in Planning, University of Toronto, Canada This is one of the few books to connect contemporary demographic concerns to critical geopolitics...Tyner's evocative case studies compel geographers to consider how questions of human population, sadly, are never far removed from questions of war. - Arun Saldanha, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, USA This book is marked by innovative and original scholarship from beginning to end. Highly readable, it will appeal to both scholars and students interested in issues related to social injustice and mass violence. - Emily Skop, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA A principled and passionate analysis of the intimate connections between populations and political violence. Tyner's case studies of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Rwanda are vivid and searching demonstrations of the public importance of a critical population geography, and deserve an audience far beyond the academy. - Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada

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James A. Tyner is Professor of Geography at Kent State University. His research interests include mass violence, war, and social justice. The author of numerous books, articles, and book chapters, he is the recipient of the Glenda Laws Award from the Association of American Geographers, among other honors.

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