Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

by Jenny Edkins

Book Overview

An analytical look at the ways we define and respond to famine. 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. Jenny Edkins responds to the contrary: famine in the contemporary world is not the antithesis of modernity but its symptom. A critical investigation of hunger, famine, and aid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816635064
• ISBN13: 9780816635061
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"