The food question in the Middle East / edited by Malak S. Rouchdy, Iman A. Hamdy ; contributors, Habib Ayeb [and seven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rouchdy, Malak S., editor.

Ḥamdī, Īmān, editor.

Ayeb, Habib, contributor.

Series:

Cairo papers in social science ; Volume 34, Number 4.

Cairo Papers in Social Science ; Volume 34, Number 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Middle East.

Food supply.

Food supply--Political aspects--Middle East.

Food security--Middle East.

Food security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2017.

Summary:

In recent years, the food question has been a central concern for politicians, economists, international organizations, activists and NGOs alike, as well as social scientists at large. This interest has emerged from the global food crisis and its impact on the environment and the political economy and security of the global south, as well as the expansion of scholarly studies relating food issues to agrarian questions with the objective of developing theoretical frameworks that would allow for a critical analysis of the current food issues at historical, cultural, social, political and economic levels.In this context, Cairo Papers organized its 2016 symposium around the food question in the Middle East. Papers in this collection address the food question from both its food and agricultural aspects, and approach it as the site of political and economic conflicts, as the means of sociocultural control and distinction, and as the expression of national and ethnic identities.Contributors: Ellis Goldberg, Saker ElNour, Hala Barakat, Khaled Mansour, Malak S. Rouchdy, Habib Ayeb, Christian Handerson, Sara Pozzi, and Sara El-Sayed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 20, 2017).

ISBN:

9781617978562

1617978566