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This book interrogates when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, a period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of this global food crisis.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. A World In Protest 3. Framing ‘food riots’: subsistence protests in international and national media, 2007-12 4. Food riots in Bangladesh? Garments worker protests and globalized subsistence crises 5. "We eat what we have, not what we want": The policy effects of food riots and eating after the 2008 crisis in Cameroon 6. Demanding accountability for hunger in India 7. The Constitution Lies to Us! Food Protests in Kenya 2008-2013 8. Authoritarian responsiveness and the greve in Mozambique 9. How ‘food riots’ work, and what they mean for development
About the author
Naomi Hossain is a political sociologist at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Her most recent book is
The Aid Lab: Understanding Bangladesh's Unexpected Success (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Patta Scott-Villiers is a political sociologist and convenes the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She is lead author of
Precarious Lives: Food Work and Care after the Global Food Crisis (Institute of Development Studies, 2016).
Summary
This book interrogates when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, a period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of this global food crisis.
