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Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple
multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by
the government. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes explores the
process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production
of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. She
traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the
possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people
might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to
ensure that this does not happen. With rich ethnographic detail,
she takes us into the worlds of cultivating wheat, trading grain,
and baking, buying, and eating bread. Linking global flows of grain
and a national bread subsidy program with everyday household
practices, Barnes theorizes the nexus between food and security,
drawing attention to staples and the lengths to which people go to
secure their consistent availability and quality.
Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple
multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by
the government. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes explores the
process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production
of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. She
traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the
possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people
might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to
ensure that this does not happen. With rich ethnographic detail,
she takes us into the worlds of cultivating wheat, trading grain,
and baking, buying, and eating bread. Linking global flows of grain
and a national bread subsidy program with everyday household
practices, Barnes theorizes the nexus between food and security,
drawing attention to staples and the lengths to which people go to
secure their consistent availability and quality.
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Nani's Tale (Paperback)
Jessica Barnes, Anthony Darden; Illustrated by Vincent Moses Rajaa
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R172
Discovery Miles 1 720
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The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this
compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday
politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital
acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She
examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers,
and international donors as they interact with the waters of the
Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local
practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters,
Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry,
from irrigation canal to international water conference. By showing
how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a
resource by people in and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range
of political dynamics, social relations, and technological
interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of
water and its management.
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet
also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this
contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art
thinking in anthropology. Approaching climate change as a nexus of
nature, culture, science, politics, and belief, the book reveals
nuanced ways of understanding the relationships between society and
climate, science and the state, certainty and uncertainty, global
and local that are manifested in climate change debates. The
contributors address three major areas of inquiry: how climate
change issues have been framed in previous times compared to the
present; how knowledge about climate change and its impacts is
produced and interpreted by different groups; and how imagination
plays a role in shaping conceptions of climate change.
The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this
compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday
politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital
acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She
examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers,
and international donors as they interact with the waters of the
Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local
practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters,
Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry,
from irrigation canal to international water conference. By showing
how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a
resource by people in and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range
of political dynamics, social relations, and technological
interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of
water and its management.
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