Moved emotionally and intellectually by thousands of unmarked mass graves from the Cambodian genocide, James Tyner brilliantly exposes the silences in how and where the Khmer Rouge is remembered officially while arguing that this violent past holds an unreconciled place within the lives and landscapes of the present. His theorization of “post-violence” will inform and inspire human rights scholarship and activism well beyond Southeast Asia.

Derek H. Alderman, Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, University of Tennessee

James Tyner’s study of the mundane landscapes of post-violence – dams, reservoirs, wats, schools, hospitals, unmarked mass graves and burial pits – unearths the legacies of the Khmer Rouge ‘hidden in plain sight’ today. This forensic study of Cambodia's ruins, archival records and survivor’s memories offers nuanced and often unexpected insights into how collective remembrance and forgetting is experienced through the living landscapes of a violent national heritage.

Karen Till, Senior Lecturer, Maynooth University, Ireland

Most book reviews offer some critical comments, but this study's flaws are

so minor that such comments would be petty. Instead, this review closes with

a suggestion that this book be adopted in college courses, certainly Southeast Asia courses but also for courses on holocaust and human rights studies and

international relations, psychology, and anthropology.

Journal of Global South Studies

Tyner’s work

serves as a powerful call to recenter the geography of

genocide...his work speaks

to a wide audience of scholars beyond Cambodia, providing

a timely, vivid, and compelling insight that elaborates

contemporary critical geographies of justice, necropower,

biopolitics, and the postcolonial.

AAG Review of Books