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James Tyner

Professor

Jim Tyner's research centers on the intersection of political and population geography.  His most recent work has addressed war, violence, and genocide. Jim has a regional interest in Southeast Asia; recent travels have taken him to Cambodia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and China. He is the author of 13 books, including War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count, which received the AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Geography.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Tyner, James A. (2011) Space, Place, and Violence: Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex, and Gender (New York: Routledge)

Tyner, James A. and Joshua Inwood, eds. (2011) Nonkilling Geography (Honolulu: Center for Global Nonkilling)

Tyner, James A. (2010) Military Legacies: A World Made by War (New York: Routledge).

Tyner, James A. (2009) War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count (New York: Guilford).

Tyner, James A. (2009) The Philippines: Mobilities, Identities, and Globalization (New York: Routledge).

Tyner, James A. (2008) The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate).

Tyner, James A. (2007) America's Strategy in Southeast Asia: From the Cold War to the Terror War (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Press).

Tyner, James A. (2006) The Business of War: Workers, Warriors and Hostages in Occupied Iraq (Aldershot, UK: Ashghate).

Tyner, James A. (2006) The Geography of Malcolm X: Black Radicalism and the Remaking of American Space (New York: Routledge).

Tyner, James A. (2006) Oriental Bodies: Discourse and Discipline in U.S. Immigration Policy, 1875-1942 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books).

Tyner, James A. (2005) Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines' Will to War (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield).

Tyner, James A. (2004) Made in the Philippines: Gendered Discourses and the Making of Migrants (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

 

Research Areas
  • Political
  • Population
  • Social
  • Southeast Asia
James Tyner
OFFICE
Department of Geography
CONTACT INFO
Phone: 330-672-7863
Fax: 330-672-4304
jtyner@kent.edu
EXPERTISE
  • Political
  • Population
  • Gender & Race