Politics of Hunger - Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, C. 1750c. 1840

Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects.

List of contents

Introduction: 'the unremitted pressure': on hunger politics
Part I: Protesting hunger
1 Food riots and the languages of hunger
2The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor
Part II: Hunger policies
3 Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism
4 Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects
Part III: Theorising hunger
5 The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor
6 Telling the hunger of 'distant' others
Conclusions

About the author

Carl J. Griffin is Lecturer in Historical Geography at Queen’s University, Belfast

Summary

Systematically explores what it is conceived as ‘hunger politics’: the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Carl Griffin, Carl J Griffin, Carl J. Griffin, Griffin Carl J.
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781526145628
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4562-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, Poverty & unemployment, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Food security & supply, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, C 1700 To C 1800, Poverty and precarity, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Food security and supply