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Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jenny Edkins
SeriesBarrows Lectures
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:264
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780816635078
ClassificationsDewey:363.8
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 15 July 2008
Publication Country United States

Description

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. 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.