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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description 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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Anuradha Joshi
Biraj Patnaik
Bonface Omondi
Celestine Nyamu Musembi
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Devangana Kalita
Dipa Sinha
Egídio Chaimite
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Ferdous Jahan
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Lauren Sneyd
Lucio Posse
Luís de Brito
Michael Sambo
Muhammad Ashikur Rahman
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Patta Scott-Villiers
regime
Sara Burke
security
Vaibhav Raaj
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Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
title Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
title_full Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
title_fullStr Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
title_full_unstemmed Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
title_short Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
title_sort food riots food rights and the politics of provisions
topic Alex Shankland
Anuradha Joshi
Biraj Patnaik
Bonface Omondi
Celestine Nyamu Musembi
crisis
Devangana Kalita
Dipa Sinha
Egídio Chaimite
economy
Ferdous Jahan
global
Lauren Sneyd
Lucio Posse
Luís de Brito
Michael Sambo
Muhammad Ashikur Rahman
moral
Patta Scott-Villiers
regime
Sara Burke
security
Vaibhav Raaj
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSC Rural communities
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
topic_facet Alex Shankland
Anuradha Joshi
Biraj Patnaik
Bonface Omondi
Celestine Nyamu Musembi
crisis
Devangana Kalita
Dipa Sinha
Egídio Chaimite
economy
Ferdous Jahan
global
Lauren Sneyd
Lucio Posse
Luís de Brito
Michael Sambo
Muhammad Ashikur Rahman
moral
Patta Scott-Villiers
regime
Sara Burke
security
Vaibhav Raaj
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSC Rural communities
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
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