Food riots, food rights and the politics of provisions / / edited by Naomi Hossain and Patta Scott-Villiers.
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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| Superior document: | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Routledge,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in food, society and environment.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (215 pages) :; illustrations, graphs, tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.