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The politics of hunger : protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 /

Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffin, Carl J. (Carl James) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: 'The unremitted pressure': On hunger politics
  • Part I Protesting hunger
  • Food riots and the languages of hunger
  • The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor
  • Part II Hunger policies
  • Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism
  • Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects
  • Part III Theorising hunger
  • The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor
  • Telling the hunger of 'distant' others
  • Conclusions.