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      Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
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      Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions

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      Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions book

      Edited ByNaomi Hossain, Patta Scott-Villiers
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 28 September 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315175249
      Pages 214
      eBook ISBN 9781315175249
      Subjects Area Studies, Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Global Development, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Hossain, N., & Scott-Villiers, P. (Eds.). (2017). Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315175249

      ABSTRACT

      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 interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of food for people on low incomes.

      The half decade of 2007–2012 was a period of intensely volatile food prices as well as unusual levels of popular mobilization, including protests and riots. Detailed case studies are included here from Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Kenya and Mozambique. The case studies illustrate that political cultures and ways of organizing around food share much across geography and history, indicating common characteristics of the popular politics of provisions under capitalism. However, all politics are ultimately local, and it is demonstrated how the historic fallout of a subsistence crisis depends ultimately on how the actors and institutions articulate, negotiate and reassert their specific claims within the peculiarities of each policy.

      A key conclusion of the book is that the politics of provisions remain essential to the right to food and that they involve unruliness. In other words, food riots work. The book explains how and why they continue to do so even in the globalized food system of the 21st century. Food riots signal a state unable to meet a principal condition of its social contract, and create powerful pressure to address that most fundamental of failings.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|22 pages

      Introduction

      ByPatta Scott-Villiers, Naomi Hossain

      Size: 3.16 MB

      chapter 2|30 pages

      A world in protest

      BySara Burke

      Size: 4.20 MB

      chapter 3|23 pages

      Framing 'food riots'

      Subsistence protests in international and national media, 2007-2012
      ByNaomi Hossain, Devangana Kalita, Bonface Omondi, Lucio Posse, Vaibhav Raaj, Muhammad Ashikur Rahman, Michael Sambo

      Size: 3.15 MB

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Food riots in Bangladesh?

      Garments worker protests and globalised subsistence crises
      ByFerdous Jahan, Naomi Hossain

      Size: 3.07 MB

      chapter 5|18 pages

      ‘We eat what we have, not what we want’

      The policy effects of food riots and eating after the 2008 crisis in Cameroon
      ByLauren Sneyd

      Size: 2.52 MB

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Demanding accountability for hunger in India

      ByAnuradha Joshi, Biraj Patnaik, Dipa Sinha

      Size: 2.84 MB

      chapter 7|22 pages

      The constitution lies to us!

      Food protests in Kenya, 2007–2012
      ByCelestine Nyamu Musembi, Patta Scott-Villiers

      Size: 3.26 MB

      chapter 8|19 pages

      Authoritarian responsiveness and the greve in Mozambique

      ByLuís de Brito, Egídio Chaimite, Alex Shankland

      Size: 2.78 MB

      chapter 9|18 pages

      How ‘food riots’ work, and why they matter for development

      ByNaomi Hossain, Patta Scott-Villiers

      Size: 2.72 MB
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