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Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid Volume 17 (Borderlines) - Softcover

Edkins, Jenny

 
9780816635078: Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid Volume 17 (Borderlines)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816635072 ISBN 13: 9780816635078
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

An analytical look at the ways we define and respond to famine.

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 notions of scarcity. Drawing on the work of Lacan, de Waal, Foucault, Zizek, and particularly Derrida, she considers Amartya Sen's entitlement approach, the Band Aid/Live Aid events, and food for work projects in Eritrea as examples of the technologization and repoliticization of famine. From the politics of famine to the practices of aid, from the theories of modernity to the complex emergencies of modern life, from the broad view to the telling detail, this searching book takes us closer to a clear understanding of some of the worst ravages of our time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jenny Edkins is lecturer in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816635072
ISBN 13 
9780816635078
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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