From Rice Fields to Killing Fields : Nature, Life and Labor under the Khmer Rouge

James A. Tyner

ISBN 10: 0815635419 / ISBN 13: 9780815635413

Edité par Syracuse University Press Sep 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation of the political economy of Democratic Kampuchea. Tyner argues that Cambodia's mass violence was the consequence not of the deranged attitudes and paranoia of a few tyrannical leaders but of the structural violence, the direct result of a series of political and economic reforms that were designed to accumulate capital rapidly.

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• Titre: From Rice Fields to Killing Fields : Nature, Life and Labor under the Khmer Rouge
• Éditeur: Syracuse University Press Sep 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0815635419
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780815635413
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 0 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 0 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 380 grammes

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Synopsis

Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, communist, and autarkic regime seeking to reorganize Cambodian society around a primitive, agrarian political economy.

From Rice Fields to Killing Fields challenges previous interpretations and provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation of the political economy of Democratic Kampuchea. Tyner argues that Cambodia's mass violence was the consequence not of the deranged attitudes and paranoia of a few tyrannical leaders but that the violence was structural, the direct result of a series of political and economic reforms that were designed to accumulate capital rapidly: the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of people through forced evacuations, the imposition of starvation wages, the promotion of import-substitution policies, and the intensification of agricultural production through forced labor. Moving beyond the Cambodian genocide, Tyner maintains that it is a mistake to view Democratic Kampuchea in isolation, as an aberration or something unique. Rather, the policies and practices initiated by the Khmer Rouge must be seen in a larger, historical-geographical context.

À propos de l?auteur

James A. Tyner is professor of Geography at Kent State University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Genocide and the Geographical Imagination: Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia.