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Whose hunger? : concepts of famine, practices of aid /

"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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edkins, Jenny (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Colección:Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pictures of hunger
  • The emergence of famine in modernity
  • Availability and entitlement
  • Practices of aid
  • Response and responsibility
  • Complex emergency and (im)possible politics.