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Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions (Hardcover)
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Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
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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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