Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid |
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| Author:
| Edkins, Jenny |
| Series title: | The Barrows Lectures |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-3506-1 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2000 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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We see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstableregimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. To the contrary, Jenny Edkins responds in this book: 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 the forms and ideas...
More DescriptionWe see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstableregimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. To the contrary, Jenny Edkins responds in this book: 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 the forms and ideas of modernity frame our understanding of famine and, consequently, shape our responses.