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War, violence, and population : making the body count /
Grounded in theory and research, this book offers a spatial perspective on how and why populations are regulated and disciplined by mass violence--and why these questions matter for scholars concerned about social justice. James Tyner focuses on how states and other actors use acts of brutality to m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Guilford Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Grounded in theory and research, this book offers a spatial perspective on how and why populations are regulated and disciplined by mass violence--and why these questions matter for scholars concerned about social justice. James Tyner focuses on how states and other actors use acts of brutality to manage, administer, and control space for political and economic purposes. He shows how demographic analyses of fertility, mortality, and migration cannot be complete without taking war and genocide into account. Stark, in-depth case studies provide a powerful and provocative basis for retheorizing po. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781606231142 1606231146 1282790331 9781282790339 |