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Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the University of Georgia Press has been to support and enhance the University’s place as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world.

The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state. We currently publish 60–70 new books a year and have a long history of publishing significant scholarship (in fields such as Atlantic World and American history, American literature, African American studies, American studies, Southern studies, environmental studies, geography, urban studies, international affairs, and security studies), creative and literary works in conjunction with major literary competitions and series, and books about the state and the region for general readers.

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Power to the Population

The Political Consequences and Causes of Demographic Changes

TADEUSZ KUGLER

Power to the Population investigates the dynamic relationship between political choices and changing populations. It explores how government policies seemingly focused on localized power and economic development profoundly shape the demographic makeup on local and global scales. In short, this book aims to illuminate the history of demographic shifts in a way that will help readers understand the future consequences of such shifts. Indeed, the book will act as a comprehensive guide to predict and evaluate different possible futures for humanity.

May 2023

264 pages Studies in Security and International Affairs Rights: World

April 2023

216 pages Geographies of Justice and Social

Transformation Rights: World

October 2022

248 pages Economics / Social Issues Rights: World Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics

JAMES A. TYNER

Cambodia experienced three consecutive famines set against the backdrop of four distinct governments: Kingdomof Cambodia (1953–1970), the US-supported Khmer Republic (1970–1975), the communist Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979), and the Vietnamese controlled People’s Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989). The book draws on an array of theorists, including Michel Foucault,Giorgio Agamben,and Achille Mbembe. Theconceptual framing brings together geopolitics, biopolitics,and necropolitics in an effort to expand our understanding of state-induced famines. State-induced famine constitutes a form of sovereign violence—a form of power that both takes life and disallows life. The book documents how state-induced famine constitutes a form of sovereign violence and operates against the backdrop of sweeping historical transformations of Cambodian society.

James A. Tyner is a professor of geography at Kent State University and fellow of the American Association of Geographers. He is the author of eighteen books, including The Nature of Revolution: Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge and War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count, which received the aag Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. Tyner is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and his other honors include the aag Glenda Laws Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues.

Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People

Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain

MELISSA GARCIA-LAMARCA

Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People provides a conceptual framework for reading debt as an apparatus for regulating life in Barcelona post 2008 global financial crisis. The book combines political economic analysis with everyday life perspectives to show how the process driving mortgage indebtedness is lived, experienced, and contested by people. Garcfa-Lamarca lays out a Marxist analysis of the financialization of housing, Foucault’s biopolitics, and Jacques Ranciere’s political subjectivation to deepen theorization around the human consequences of the destruction of home and the potential for political resistance to these housing injustices.

Melissa García-Lamarca is a postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability, based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

An American Woman Beyond the Great Wall; 1934–1974

ELEANOR COOPER

Eleanor McCallie Cooper first heard about her cousin Grace Liu when she was 21 and on her way to teach English in Japan. China was closed at that time, but Eleanor determined one day to find her cousin and tell her story. She lived with Grace the last year of her life and spent years conducting interviews and collecting Grace’s letters, articles, photos, and documents.

Grace in China documents the experiences of an American woman inside China both before and after the Communist era, including her survival during the Japanese occupation of WWII, her witnessing the Red Army marching into North China, the early years of transformation after Mao took over, the famine and disaster of the Great Leap Forward, and being arrested by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. Married to a chinese man, her expereince was very different than an outsider’s.

Grace Liu’s remarkable story is told as much as possible in her own words. She wrote letters describing her privileged life in the semi-colonial concessions, articles for English language publications during the early years of Mao’s revolution, and memoir writings later in life with memory and reflection.

With deep roots in the South, Eleanor Cooper is drawn to stories that have been hidden or forgotten. When she first heard about her father’s cousin, Grace Liu, who had married “a Chinaman” and gone to China, she was determined to find her. China was closed to the West then, but when Nixon and Mao opened the doors, Grace returned to the US. Eleanor lived with her the last year of Grace’s life helping her write her memoirs. She worked with William Liu, Grace’s son, to tell this story.

Eleanor lived in Japan for two years and has traveled in Korea, China, India, and parts of the Middle East and Europe. She earned a doctorate in education with a focus on community learning and leadership. She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband and family.

Award-winning author of Dragonfly Dreams, historical fiction for young readers set in China during WWII, based on the true story of the Liu family, winner of 2022 Gold Prize Benjamin Franklin Award for Young Readers Fiction presented by IBPA, NIEA Award, the Feathered Quill, Pinnacle and the Royal Dragonfly Award for young readers.

April 2023 400 pages Rights: World