Food riots, food rights and the politics of provisions

Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hossain, Naomi (-)
Otros Autores: Hossain, Naomi, editor (editor), Scott-Villiers, Patta, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge 2017.
2017.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Routledge studies in food, society and environment.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Patta Scott-Villiers and Naomi Hossain
  • A world in protest / Sara Burke
  • Framing "food riots" : subsistence protests in international and national media, 2007-12 / Naomi Hossain, Devangana Kalita, Bonface Omondi, Lucio Posse, Vaibhav Raaj, Muhammad Ashikur Rahman, and Michael Sambo
  • Food riots in Bangladesh? : garments worker protests and globalized subsistence crises / Ferdous Jahan and Naomi Hossain
  • "We eat what we have, not what we want" : the policy effects of food riots and eating after the 2008 crisis in Cameroon / Lauren Sneyd
  • Demanding accountability for hunger in India / Anuradha Joshi, Biraj Patnaik and Dipa Sinha
  • The constitution lies to us! : food protests in Kenya 2008-2013 / Celestine Musembi and Patta Scott-Villiers
  • Authoritarian responsiveness and the greve in Mozambique / Luis de Brito, Egidio Chaimite and Alex Shankland
  • How "food riots" work, and what they mean for development / Naomi Hossain and Patta Scott-Villiers.