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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2000.
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Table des matières:
- Pictures of hunger
- The emergence of famine in modernity
- Availability and entitlement
- Practices of aid
- Response and responsibility
- Complex emergency and (im)possible politics.