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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Edkins, Jenny (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Series:Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 17.
Subjects:
Famines.
Food relief.
Aide alimentaire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Famines
Food relief
Hongersnood.
Voedselhulp.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pictures of hunger
  • The emergence of famine in modernity
  • Availability and entitlement
  • Practices of aid
  • Response and responsibility
  • Complex emergency and (im)possible politics.

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