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.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.