Food riots, food rights and the politics of provisions / edited by Naomi Hossain and Patta Scott-Villiers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hossain, Naomi, editor.

Scott-Villiers, Patta, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in food, society and environment

Routledge studies in food, society and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food riots--History--21st century.

Food riots.

Right to food.

Food supply--Government policy.

Food supply.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 198 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction / Patta Scott-Villiers and Naomi Hossain

A world in protest / Sara Burke

Framing "food riots" : subsistence protests in international and national media, 2007-12 / Naomi Hossain, Devangana Kalita, Bonface Omondi, Lucio Posse, Vaibhav Raaj, Muhammad Ashikur Rahman, and Michael Sambo

Food riots in Bangladesh? : garments worker protests and globalized subsistence crises / Ferdous Jahan and Naomi Hossain

"We eat what we have, not what we want" : the policy effects of food riots and eating after the 2008 crisis in Cameroon / Lauren Sneyd

Demanding accountability for hunger in India / Anuradha Joshi, Biraj Patnaik and Dipa Sinha

The constitution lies to us! : food protests in Kenya 2008-2013 / Celestine Musembi and Patta Scott-Villiers

Authoritarian responsiveness and the greve in Mozambique / Luís de Brito, Egídio Chaimite and Alex Shankland

How "food riots" work, and what they mean for development / Naomi Hossain and Patta Scott-Villiers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138040168

1138040169

OCLC:

975485208