Whose hunger? : concepts of famine, practices of aid / Jenny Edkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edkins, Jenny.

Series:

Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 17.

Borderlines ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Famines.

Food relief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstable regimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. Jenny Edkins responds to the contrary: famine in the contemporary world is not the antithesis of modernity but its symptom. A critical investigation of hunger, famine, and aid practices in international politics, Whose Hunger? shows how modernity frames our understanding of famine-and, consequently, shapes our responses. Edkins examines Malthus and the origins of famine theory in not

Contents:

Pictures of hunger

The emergence of famine in modernity

Availability and entitlement

Practices of aid

Response and responsibility

Complex emergency and (im)possible politics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6619-9

OCLC:

471130899