Whose hunger? [[electronic resource] ] : concepts of famine, practices of aid / / Jenny Edkins
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| Autore: |
Edkins Jenny
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| Titolo: |
Whose hunger? [[electronic resource] ] : concepts of famine, practices of aid / / Jenny Edkins
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Famines |
| Food relief | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Pictures of hunger -- The emergence of famine in modernity -- Availability and entitlement -- Practices of aid -- Response and responsibility -- Complex emergency and (im)possible politics. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Whose hunger |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-6619-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454611003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; ; v. 17.