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"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 practices in international politics, Whose Hunger? shows how modernity frames our understanding of famine--and, consequently, shapes our responses. Edkins examines Malthus and the origins of famine theory in notions of scarcity. Drawing on the work of Lacan, de Waal, Foucault, Zizek, and particularly Derrida, she considers Amartya Sen's entitlement approach, the Band Aid/Live Aid events, and food for work projects in Eritrea as examples of the technologization and repoliticization of famine. From the politics of famine to the practices of aid, from the theories of modernity to the complex emergencies of modern life, from the broad view to the telling detail, this searching book takes us closer to a clear understanding of some of the worst ravages of our time"--Provided by publisher

Less than two years after the outbreak of civil war, famine conditions are confirmed in Sudan. With ceasefire talks faltering and a near-complete lack of humanitarian access, conditions continue to deteriorate for 26 million Sudanese facing acute food insecurity.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes 1-5 -- 16-39 -- 40-41 -- Part I: The 'Old' Poor Law, c. 1640-1845 -- 1 An 'Un-National Town' -- The Industrial Capital of Ireland -- The Athens of the North? -- Housing and Diet -- Strategies for Survival -- A Poor Law for Ireland -- The Hungry Forties? -- Notes 1-35 -- 36-71 -- 72-119 -- Part II: A National Crisis, c. 1845-47 -- 2 A 'Man-Made Famine' -- An Unusual Blight -- Local Responses -- 'Absolute Danger of Starvation' -- 'A District Distinct from Belfast'. Suffering in Ballymacarrett -- A Divided Society -- Notes 1-45 -- 46-85 -- 3 'All the Horrors of Famine' -- Belfast in Crisis -- Protest and Riot -- 'Gnawing and Deadly Hunger' -- Desolation and Distress Unparalleled -- 'The Glorious Principle of Self- Reliance' -- Poverty on the Streets -- Notes 1-3 -- 4-46 -- 47-94 -- 95-100 -- 4 An Droch-Shaol. Disease and Death in Black '47 -- Institutional Responses to Disease -- Fever Follows Famine -- Great and Peculiar -- Rising Mortality and Multiple Burials -- 'Skibbereen Brought to our Doors' -- 'An Increasing Scarcity of Money' -- The Amended Poor Law -- Judgment upon Our Land -- Notes 1-35 -- 36-83 -- 84-126 -- 127-148 -- Part III: A Divided Town -- 5 Public and Private Responses -- Government Relief. The Amended Poor Law -- Private Philanthropy -- Women and Philanthropy -- 'Thorough Evangelization' -- Charity and Conversion -- The Bible and Protestant Dominion -- Notes 1-12 -- 13-56 -- 57-102 -- 103-123 -- 6 Conflict and Rebellion -- Rising to the Challenge. The Role of the Belfast Workhouse -- Emigration and Removal -- 'Orange and Green Will Carry the Day' -- The War of the Placards and the 1848 Uprising -- The Rate-in-Aid Dispute -- 7 'The Crisis is Passed' -- The Path to Recovery -- The Cholera Epidemic -- Orange against Green -- A Royal Visit.

Discussions of world hunger have focused on economic growth and international food aid, assuming that food supply is the critical issue. The authors show that food access rooted in social stratification and military power is the central problem. Synthesizing the entitlement and military famine approaches to hunger, the authors examine the effects of food supply, economic growth, social stratification, and military power on child hunger in less developed countries (1990-2000) using a cross-national analysis. Child hunger is largely due to gender stratification, militarization, and armed conflict. Halting wars, expanding political rights, and improving gender equity reduce child hunger. Economic growth and programmatic international food aid reduce child hunger, but there are no benefits from increased total food supply or international emergency relief. Child hunger is an access problem best addressed by expanding social and political rights, reducing armed conflict and militarization, and improving women's status. Early warning and relief efforts should focus on these concerns instead of the ``supply'' concerns traditionally emphasized.

Title -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 'Shovelling Out the Paupers': The Irish Poor Law and Assisted Emigration During the Great Famine -- 2 The Mechanics of Assisted Emigration: From the Fitzwilliam Estate in Wicklow to Canada -- 3 The Experience of Irish Women Transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) During the Famine -- 4 Reporting the Irish Famine in America: Images of 'Suffering Ireland' in the American Press, 1845-1848 -- 5 Widows' and Dependent Parents' American Civil War Pension Files: A New Source for the Irish Emigrant Experience -- 6 From Emigrant to Fenian: Patrick A. Collins and the Boston Irish -- 7 The Women of Ballykilcline, County Roscommon: Claiming New Ground -- 8 Constructing an Immigrant Profile: Using Statistics to Identify Famine Immigrants in Toledo, Ohio, 1850-1900 -- 9 'The Chained Wolves': Young Ireland in Exile -- 10 'There is No Person Starving Here': Australia and the Great Famine -- 11 The Irish in Australia: Remembering and Commemorating the Great Famine -- 12 'Une Voix D'Irlande': Integration, Migration, and Travelling Nationalism Between Famine Ireland and Quebec -- 13 Languages of Memory: Jeremiah Gallagher and the Grosse Île Famine Monument -- Copyright