LEADER 02510nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910454611003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-6619-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000723037 035 $a(EBL)433176 035 $a(OCoLC)471130899 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271599 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206536 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271599 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10295884 035 $a(PQKB)11160405 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC433176 035 $a(OCoLC)741926440 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse40057 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL433176 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10277746 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522719 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000723037 100 $a20000502d2000 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhose hunger?$b[electronic resource] $econcepts of famine, practices of aid /$fJenny Edkins 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 225 1 $aBorderlines ;$vv. 17 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-3506-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index. 327 $aPictures of hunger -- The emergence of famine in modernity -- Availability and entitlement -- Practices of aid -- Response and responsibility -- Complex emergency and (im)possible politics. 330 $aWe see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstable regimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. Jenny Edkins responds to the contrary: famine in the contemporary world is not the antithesis of modernity but its symptom. A critical investigation of hunger, famine, and aid practices in international politics, Whose Hunger? shows how modernity frames our understanding of famine-and, consequently, shapes our responses. Edkins examines Malthus and the origins of famine theory in not 410 0$aBorderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;$vv. 17. 606 $aFamines 606 $aFood relief 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFamines. 615 0$aFood relief. 676 $a363.8 700 $aEdkins$b Jenny$0863060 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454611003321 996 $aWhose hunger$91996459 997 $aUNINA